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Remembering Hubert Harrison, the Father of Harlem Radicalism

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Jeffrey B. Perry anti-capitalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, social justice

Hubert Harrison (April 27, 1883-December 17, 1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical political activist. Historian Joel A. Rogers, in

Call for Submissions: The Centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre

April 23, 2021April 22, 2021 AAIHS Editors

Editor: Robert Greene II, Ph.D. Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog

Black Lesbian Thought: An Interview with Briona Simone Jones

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Emerald Rutledge African Diaspora, black feminism, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black women, Gender, Historical Memory, LGBT, literature, race, Resistance, sexuality

In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of

Louise Thompson and the Black and White Film

April 15, 2021April 14, 2021 Denise Lynn Activism, black internationalism, Black women, race

In 1932, James Ford returned from the Soviet Union with a letter from the Russian film company Meschrabpom saying it

The University of Chicago, Urban Renewal, and the Black Community

April 12, 2021April 18, 2021 James Bradley Activism, archives, education, Racial Violence, religion, white supremacy

“It is not possible to operate and maintain a great university in a deteriorating or slum neighborhood,” proclaimed University of