Activism - AAIHS

New Age Activism: Maria W. Stewart and Black Lives Matter

July 24, 2017July 29, 2017 Westenley Alcenat Activism, black intellectual history, black lives matter, Black women, Gender

The 1830s was the high-tide of Jacksonianism, an era many historians consider the nadir of early American history. Although universal

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor speaking at TEDxBaltimore in January 2016. Photo: TEDxBaltimore/Flickr.

Neo-McCarthyism and the Radical Professor

July 22, 2017July 27, 2017 Russell Rickford academia, Activism, digital media, education, Resistance

It is never easy to be a critical intellectual in a bourgeois democracy—a society that professes egalitarian values while aggressively

The Black Panther Party of the South: An Interview with Larry Little

July 22, 2017July 25, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Activism, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, black protest, South

Larry Little’s story doesn’t fit into the dominant narrative of the Black Panther Party (BPP) as an organization limited to major

The Criminalized Majority

July 21, 2017July 24, 2017 Guest Poster Activism, black politics, black radical tradition, mass incarceration, racism

by Dan Berger and David Stein “Everyone should go to jail, say, once every ten years,” opined novelist and poet

Albertina Sisulu briefs protestors, Johannesburg, 1984, by Paul Weinberg. Photo: University of Cape Town Libraries.

African Women and Social Movements in Africa

July 18, 2017July 21, 2017 Jaimee A. Swift Activism, Black women, Gender, Politics, Social Movements

While historical narratives have traditionally depicted the African continent and its people as inferior, scholars are actively challenging this pervasive rhetoric