Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

Lorraine Hansberry and the Praxis of Freedom

September 7, 2022August 30, 2022 Leticia Ridley #RadicalVision, black feminism, Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision How does one sharpen our focus on

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Theorists, Strategists, and Histories of Slavery

September 7, 2021November 18, 2021 Diana Paton Black women, slavery

In the 1640s in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Maria Portogoys, a “half free,” formerly enslaved woman, arranged that

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Blog Announcements: Welcome to the New Editorial Board!

August 18, 2021August 18, 2021 AAIHS Editors

We’re excited to announce the new members of the editorial board for the blog, which includes a diverse group of

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Blog Announcements: Summer 2021 Editorial Interns

May 28, 2021June 5, 2021 AAIHS Editors aaihs

The editing team of Black Perspectives is pleased to announce the 2021 summer internship cohort! Please join us in welcoming these talented

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The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 Adam Thomas African Diaspora, Caribbean, Racial Violence, Resistance

In a 1935 copper miners’ strike in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), historian C. L. R. James

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