Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

Online Forum: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied

July 23, 2019July 28, 2019 AAIHS Editors #TonguesUntied30, art, Black cinema, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, race, sexuality

July 29–August 2, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum to commemorate

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Selma, The Clergy, and the Limits of Solidarity

July 18, 2019September 16, 2019 Georgia Jackson Activism, black politics, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence, Politics, race, Racial Violence, racism, religion, Resistance

The church has traditionally been a fundamental part of African American life, a space which could provide stability, strength, and

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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

June 27, 2019June 26, 2019 Adriana Chira Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Haiti, nation, race, slavery

George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of

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“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

June 24, 2019June 22, 2019 Mark Anthony Neal Black film, black politics, film series, hip hop, music, police brutality, race, Resistance, women in film

“1989, a number, another summer, sound of the funky drummer” —Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” The scene may be the

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On Education and African American Intellectual History

June 14, 2019June 12, 2019 Derrick P. Alridge #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, education, education reform, Historiography, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ As a scholar in African

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