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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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Writing on the Legacy of May Ayim

June 3, 2022June 2, 2022 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black German Movement, Germany, May Ayim, Transnational Feminism

In her suicide note on August 9, 1996, Black German activist-intellectual May Ayim sadly wrote, “I have lived and experienced

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Resurrecting Shirley Chisholm from Symbol to Life

June 1, 2022May 31, 2022 Anastasia Curwood Congressional Black Cacus, Jesse Jackson, Politics, Shirley Chisholm, Sojourner Truth

Fifteen years ago, I decided to write a biography of a Black woman. My scholarly genealogy pushed me toward such

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The Consequences of USCT Soldiering

May 26, 2022May 25, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Civil War, Pension System, reparations, United States Colored Infantry, United States Colored Troop, USCI, USCT

Solomon Wilson, a Thirty-First United States Colored Infantry (USCI) soldier, died in a regimental hospital on August 6, 1864. An

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Early Black Collegians and the Fight for Full Inclusion

May 24, 2022May 23, 2022 John Frederick Bell black intellectual history, education

This July 7th will mark the 181st anniversary of the formation of the first Black student organization in American higher

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