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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!

July 21, 2022August 4, 2022 AAIHS Editors aaihs

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over

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Black Genealogy After Alex Haley’s Roots

June 17, 2022June 16, 2022 Menika Dirkson africa, Alex Haley, Genealogy, Roots, television, West Africa

“A lot has been stolen from Black Americans. A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is

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Seeing May Ayim through Her Friends’ Eyes

June 13, 2022June 12, 2022 Tiffany Florvil black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

Black German poet and activist May Ayim would have turned sixty-two years old on May 3. She was born in

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Self-Revision as Praxis

June 7, 2022June 16, 2022 Sherry Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBio, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women

The ax forgets, but the tree remembers. – African proverb “Forgetting is the true death.” – Mama Koko Zauditu Selassie,

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Online Forum–Black Women’s Biography

May 27, 2022May 26, 2022 AAIHS Editors #BlackWomenBio, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender

May 31, 2022 to June 7, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting

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