Search Results for: police brutality

Remembering Ronald (X) Stokes and the Politics of Black Solidarity

April 11, 2022April 10, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black nationalism, Black Power, police violence

It has been 60 years since the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) killed Ronald (X) Stokes, wounded several others, and

Read more

Chicago’s Murals and Block Clubs

April 5, 2022April 4, 2022 E. James West art, black intellectual history

In the last installment of my series about race and DOCUMERICA, we were introduced to the work of Black photojournalist

Read more

Black Beauty Queens and Global Representational Politics

March 16, 2022March 15, 2022 Mickell Carter Beauty, Beauty Standards, Black Beauty, Internationalism, Miss Black USA

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. In January, Cheslie Kryst, who was known as

Read more

#AAIHS2022 Conference Preview: Everyday Practices, Memory Making, and Local Spaces

March 8, 2022March 7, 2022 Tyler Parry #AAIHS2022, #AAIHSConference, African Diaspora, black intellectual history

Later this week the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) will hold its seventh annual conference on March 11-12, 2022,

Read more

Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present

February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 Nicole M. Gipson black politics, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, SNCC

  What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a

Read more