black protest - AAIHS

“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Gender, Racial Violence, Resistance, Unseen Light

*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.

African Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black protest, racism, Resistance, South Africa

The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council

Statues, Symbolism, and White Supremacy

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Devyn Spence Benson African Diaspora, black protest, Black radicalism, Caribbean, Cuba, Resistance, white supremacy

Last month, protesters at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the state’s flagship campus, surprised the nation by toppling the

Spike Lee, Nike, and Corporate Activism

October 2, 2018October 3, 2018 E. James West Activism, Black film, black politics, black protest, film, Racial Capitalism, sports

In early September, Nike unveiled a new advertising campaign to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of its “Just Do It” motto,

Online Forum: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee

October 1, 2018October 17, 2018 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, police violence, racism, Resistance, Unseen Light

October 8-12, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online forum based