Search Results for: black power

“QUEST”: A New Film on Black Family Life

December 23, 2017December 29, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, Black film, Philadelphia

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.

Read more

Black Gay History and the Fight Against AIDS

December 23, 2017December 29, 2017 Dan Royles Harlem Renaissance, homoeroticism, sexuality

During the 1980s and 1990s, African American AIDS activists used Black gay history as a tool in the fight against AIDS.

Read more

Black British History and the Politics of Belonging

December 19, 2017December 23, 2017 Nicole Jackson black intellectual history, black internationalism

One of my favorite pieces of Caribbean/Black British literature is Merle Collins’ poem, “When Britain Had Its GREAT.” In the short

Read more

The Legend of the Black Mecca: A New Book on Politics and Class in Atlanta

December 16, 2017December 21, 2017 Julie Hawks Atlanta, gentrification, poverty

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Read more

Black Radicalism and Voices of Resistance

December 16, 2017December 21, 2017 Dan Berger Angela Davis, mass incarceration, Political Prisoners, prisons

First published at the end of 1971, Angela Davis’ If They Come in the Morning is the kind of urgent tract

Read more