Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Juneteenth and American Democracy

June 21, 2021June 21, 2021 Alexandra E. Stern American Civil War, black lives matter, democracy, emancipation, holidays, Juneteenth

Online Roundtable: Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora’

June 21, 2021June 26, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #QuitoSwan, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, Black radicalism, environmental justice

June 28th-July 2nd, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of

The Historical Roots of Abolition in the Twenty-First Century

June 11, 2021June 9, 2021 Julia Bernier Activism, black radical tradition, Haiti, slavery, white supremacy

In June 2020 Mariame Kaba penned an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled, “Yes We Literally Mean Abolish

A More Radical Vision for Palestinian Self-determination

June 10, 2021June 9, 2021 Ira Dworkin Activism, black internationalism, black politics, black radical tradition

Nearly fifty years ago, at the 1972 National Black Political Convention (NBPC) in Gary, Indiana, Douglas E. Moore of the

Tulsa and the Open Question of Justice, 1921–2021

June 8, 2021June 7, 2021 Kwasi Konadu social justice, Tulsa, violence

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, a massacre orchestrated by a white mob against