Search Results for: du bois

Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July

July 4, 2018July 6, 2018 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, slavery

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”

Read more

Panel Forum for #AAIHS2019 Conference

June 22, 2018August 7, 2018 AAIHS Editors #AAIHS2019

The committee for the 2019 AAIHS annual conference recently released the CFP for submissions related to the theme, Black Internationalism–Then and Now.

Read more

Sun Ra Speaks About the Trial of Angela Davis

June 20, 2018July 2, 2018 Brian Lefresne Afrofuturism, Angela Davis, Black Panther Party, music

Anthony Reed, in his recent article on the grammar of utopia and freedom in the music of jazz performer Sun

Read more

Black Art and Social Justice: An Interview with Elizabeth Burden

June 14, 2018June 18, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly art, blackness, race, Resistance, social justice, Visual Culture

In May 1967, Black Panther newspaper began incorporating “revolutionary art,” including drawings, political cartoons, and mixed-media images to “enlighten” and “educate”

Read more

Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero: An Interview with Mitch Kachun

May 30, 2018June 5, 2018 Stephen G. Hall Historical Memory, Resistance

In today’s post, historian Stephen G. Hall, Fellow at the National Humanities Center, interviews Mitch Kachun on his new book First Martyr of

Read more