Online Forum-Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora
September 16-23, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum considering the
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Black women
Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence
In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the
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A Creative-Theoretical Immersion into Black Radical Intellectual Thought, Part 2
This post is part of our roundtable on The Dialectic is in the Sea. Beatriz Nascimento thus provides some significant
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Requiem for a Howard University Student
On February 4, 1958, eighteen-year-old Gloria Adelaide Jordan began her Freshman year of college at Howard University to pursue a
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A Black Woman’s Story of Sacrifice and Survival
On January 4, 1861−one week before Alabama officially seceded from the Union−a 65-year-old freed Black woman named Sally Johnson, petitioned
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