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Online Forum–Bounce Music

October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #Bounce, dance, freedom, Liberation, music, Performance

October 24, 2022 to October 29, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting an

Toward the Preservation of Black Joy in Public Memory

October 18, 2022October 13, 2022 Jessy Ohl, Shalonda Capers, and Caran Kennedy Racial Violence, Resistance

Representations of Black experiences remain frustratingly narrow in public commemoration efforts across the U.S. For many decades, and especially in

Marriage and Slavery in Colonial Venezuela

October 17, 2022October 13, 2022 Menika Dirkson African Diaspora, Gender, slavery

On September 2, the National Academy of History and the Venezuela History Network in Caracas announced the transcription and digitization

The Legal Mind of Constance Baker Motley

October 14, 2022October 12, 2022 Tomiko Brown-Nagin #aaihsroundtables, #BlackWomenBOE, Brown v. Board, Civil Rights Movement, Constance Baker Motley, desegregation, education, Thurgood Marshall

This post is part of our forum on Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The following is

How Pauli Murray Masterminded Brown v. Board

October 13, 2022October 12, 2022 Tejai Beulah Howard #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBOE, black intellectual history, Brown v. Board, education, Pauli Murray

This post is part of our forum on Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision According to