Religion - AAIHS

Writing and Re-writing the Legacy of Malcolm X

February 23, 2017January 25, 2018 Alaina Morgan #RememberingMalcolm, Malcolm X, Manning Marable, Nation of Islam

This post is part of our online forum,” Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. As a historian of Islam and the African Diaspora,

Remembering Malcolm

February 19, 2017February 22, 2017 Garrett Felber #RememberingMalcolm, Malcolm X

This week on Black Perspectives, we mark the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with a week-long forum, “Remembering Malcolm,”

State Violence and the Canudos Massacre in Brazil

February 18, 2017February 20, 2017 Greg Childs Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, freedom, marronage

In April of 1897, General Artur Oscar de Andrade Guimarães began preparing for an expedition that would carry he and

Cosmological Queerness Across the Yoruba Diaspora

February 5, 2017April 2, 2018 James Padilioni Jr Afro-Brazilians, Black Queers, Brazil, religion, slave trade, slavery

The constellating topics of homosexuality and masculinity are perennial to Black American discourses. In contemporary debates, the chorus shouting loudest

Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown

January 31, 2017February 3, 2017 Sikivu Hutchinson religion

On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred members of the San Francisco-based Peoples Temple church (including over three hundred children)