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Online Forum-Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors black protest, Resistance, UrbanRebellions

October 14-17, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum that

Maulana Karenga, Operational Unity, and the Black Power Movement

October 9, 2024October 6, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black intellectual history, Black Power, Politics

Maulana Karenga, founder and chair of the Organization Us (Us), developed the concept of operational unity during the Black Power Movement. Several

Post-war Representations of British Caribbean Food Markets

September 26, 2024September 25, 2024 Parise Carmichael-Murphy Caribbean, food

The proverbial “you are what you eat” suggests that what someone consumes is indicative of their overall health and their

African Americans and the First Black Republic

September 25, 2024September 21, 2024 Sherri V. Cummings black protest, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

It is difficult to talk about Haiti. For the past two months the island nation has been mired in violence

Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora

September 24, 2024September 21, 2024 Christina Proenza-Coles Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism

African resistance to American slavery originated at the moment African slavery in the Americas began. The first recorded enslaved Africans