From Abolitionist to Race Woman: Charlotte Forten’s Black Feminist Legacy
In today’s post, Mickell Carter, an editorial assistant at Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Jaimie D. Crumley about her
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Free People of Color
The Black Intellectual Traditions That Shaped Frederick Douglass
The United States recently marked 250 years since the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For this occasion, a
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Black Women Enterprising Freedom in Colonial Santo Domingo
Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who
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The Mystique of Chica da Silva
“La negra tiene tumba’o, nunca camina de la’o.” -Celia Cruz In 1985, West German band Boney M. released its eighth album, Eye Dance,
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Margaret Walker’s Business during The Antebellum Era
Throughout the Antebellum era, the institution of slavery worked to strip Black women of their humanity and human rights and
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