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My Journey to Becoming a Historian of Black Women’s Activism

March 19, 2024March 11, 2024 Kiana Knight #BlackHistory, #BooksArchivesMonuments, books

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.“ My journey to becoming

Online Forum–The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me

March 18, 2024March 15, 2024 AAIHS Editors #BooksArchivesMonuments, Black History, books, forum

March 19, 2024 to March 28, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

Black Women’s Activism and the Long 1960s: A CBFS Interview

March 14, 2024March 11, 2024 Lucien Baskin Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Resistance

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne

New Kingdom Egyptian Funerary Cones

March 13, 2024March 11, 2024 Yasmine Guy Ancient Egypt, Funerary Cone, material culture

On display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in New York, is a fascinating Ancient Egyptian pottery piece

Atlanta’s Black Libraries and the Push for Black Voters

March 12, 2024March 3, 2024 Madison Ingram Activism, Black women, South

After a federal court ruling invalidated Georgia’s all-white primary in 1946, there was a huge push to form a coalition