Search Results for: black studies

Online Forum: The Futures of Frederick Douglass

April 15, 2019August 12, 2022 AAIHS Editors #DouglassForward

April 22-26, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on innovative approaches

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Hip-Hop in the Trump Era

April 12, 2019August 12, 2022 Bianki Torres black intellectual history, capitalism, music, race, racism, Resistance, white supremacy

I found out about Kanye West’s October 2018 meeting with Donald Trump through memes on social media. At first, I

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Race, Shock, and Social Protest: An Interview with Qiana Whitted

April 10, 2019August 12, 2022 Julian Chambliss #comicsandrace, black protest, racism

This interview is derived from a conversation between Julian Chambliss and Qiana Whitted about her new book EC Comics: Race, Shock,

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Libraries, Literacy, and Community Building: An Interview with Brea McQueen

April 8, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane black feminism, education, library, literacy, youth

In today’s post, senior editor J. T. Roane  interviews  Brea McQueen, a teen librarian in Cincinnati. McQueen has worked in libraries

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Making ‘A Nation Within A Nation’: An Interview with Komozi Woodard

April 5, 2019August 12, 2022 Say Burgin #AAIHSRoundtable, Activism, black intellectual history, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, nation, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

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