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Seeing May Ayim through Her Friends’ Eyes

Black German poet and activist May Ayim would have turned sixty-two years old on May 3. She was born in

The ax forgets, but the tree remembers. – African proverb “Forgetting is the true death.” – Mama Koko Zauditu Selassie,

On a warm August afternoon in 1882, 3,000 family, friends, and acquaintances gathered to pay their respects to Mrs. Anna

“I think of invention as a gift to the reader,” writer and professor Bridgett Davis said. The moment you put

May 31, 2022 to June 7, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting