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Audre Lorde standing in front of board reading "Women are powerful and dangerous." Source: The Guardian.

Online Forum: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

February 10, 2021February 14, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AudreLorde

February 15-19, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online forum to

A Family History of British Empire

February 5, 2021January 30, 2021 Mary Hicks African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Caribbean

“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,

Black and Latinx LGBTQ Communities: An Author Interview with Siobhan Brooks

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Tyler Parry black, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Gender, intersectionality, Latino/a, LGBT, religion, sexual violence, sexuality, trans identity, violence

In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Siobhan Brooks on her new book Everyday Violence against Black and

Law Enforcement’s Double Standards for Black Radical Activists

February 1, 2021January 30, 2021 Denise Lynn Activism, black radical tradition, Black women, Resistance

Many Americans were appalled to watch the Donald Trump inspired coup attempt against Congress. That Trump instigated his followers and

The Interior Lives of Black Youth

January 29, 2021January 30, 2021 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Jim Crow, Resistance

In Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Paula C. Austin, Assistant Professor of History