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CFP: AAIHS 2023 Conference

May 20, 2022May 19, 2022 AAIHS Editors abolitionism, CFP, Environmental Racism, health, slavery

#AAIHS2023 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Eighth Annual Conference Conference Theme: “We Can’t Breathe”: Crisis, Catastrophe and Sustaining

Rust Belt Resilience: The History of Buffalo’s Colored Musicians Club

May 19, 2022May 18, 2022 Tiana U. Wilson black lives matter, Black radicalism, Civil Rights Movement, white supremacy

When I first heard of the Buffalo mass shooting from my residence in California, I immediately reached out to my

A Mortal Man’s Heart: Kendrick Lamar and Black Masculinity

May 13, 2022May 12, 2022 Zion McThomas black boys, Gender, hip hop, Kendrick Lamer, masculinity

We haven’t heard from Kendrick Lamar (as far as solo projects) since the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning album DAMN. Kendrick

Robert Rayford, State Violence, and AIDS in Black America

May 11, 2022May 10, 2022 Dan Royles HIV-AIDS, policing, Robert Rayford, St. Louis, youth

In the forty-one years since doctors first recognized what would become known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among gay

Recovering the History of Black Showgirls in Las Vegas

May 9, 2022May 8, 2022 Su Kim Chung Anna Bailey, Entertainers, Las Vegas, Moulin Rouge, Showgirls

Las Vegas has a long and glamorous entertainment history that evokes images of tuxedo clad crooners, female singers in elegant