Search Results for: civil rights movement

Contesting the Stage

July 16, 2020July 12, 2020 David Krasner #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalBlackTheatre, archives, Black radicalism, race

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical

Read more

Speculative Black Theatre History

July 15, 2020July 12, 2020 Soyica Colbert #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalBlackTheatre, art, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Performance, theater

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical

Read more

Online Roundtable: Kate Dossett’s Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal

July 7, 2020July 10, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable

July 13-17 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with The Journal of Civil

Read more

Ties that Bind? Emerging Race-Conscious Alliances Between African Immigrants and Black Americans

July 7, 2020July 5, 2020 Drew Smith Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, police violence

The atrocity of George Floyd’s killing by police has stoked anger over systemic racism while also helping redraw geographic, demographic,

Read more

Losing Willie McGee

July 6, 2020July 5, 2020 Denise Lynn Politics, racism, white supremacy

The toll a failed political campaign takes on an individual can be devastating, none more so than when a life

Read more