“More and More Influential”: Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump
As President Trump recently said on the occasion of Black History Month, Frederick Douglass “is being recognized by more and
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On Michelle Wright’s Physics of Blackness
This is a guest post by Julietta Hua, an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at
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Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives
In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into
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Black Power and Anti-Carceral State Infrastructure
In 1991, Black radical activist Safiya Bukhari spoke to an audience and reflected on her decision to join the Harlem
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#AAIHS2021: A Virtual Conference on “The West”
Today, the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) begins its sixth annual conference–and our first ever virtual conference! This year’s
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