Activism - AAIHS

Online Forum–The Significance of the Black Family in the US

November 11, 2022November 10, 2022 AAIHS Editors #BlackFamily, #Roundtable, Activism, citizenship, forum

November 14-21, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting an online forum on the

Remembering Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Rhonda Y. Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #UntilIAmFree, Activism, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Gender

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Prelude I teach a course

Organizing for Reproductive Justice: An Interview with Barbara Smith

August 8, 2022August 1, 2022 Joseph R. Fitzgerald #ReproductiveRights, Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black radicalism, Black women, reproductive justice

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In today’s post, Barbara Smith is interviewed

Reproductive Justice and Black Women’s Activism

August 5, 2022February 27, 2023 Tiana U. Wilson #ReproductiveRights, Activism, Black women, health, medicine

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In September 1986, former Third World Women’s

Black Mayors, Black Politics, and the Gary Convention

March 22, 2022March 21, 2022 Brandon Stokes #GaryConvention50, Activism, black politics, Black Power

The National Black Political Convention of 1972 saw many national giants on the Black political scene with Amiri Baraka and