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The Early Activism of Angela Davis

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, Black women, carceral state, police brutality

On October 13, 1970, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Angela Davis in New York facing indictments for kidnapping,

The Black Poet’s Journey Through the Iron Curtain

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 Caio Fernandes Barbosa art, Black Arts, Brazil, poetry, Soviet Union

In late July 1955, after sailing to France and then taking a train to Poland, the Brazilian Black poet Solano

Dorothy Porter, Archives, and the Preservation of Black Studies

February 5, 2024February 2, 2024 Derrion Arrington African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women

The explosive growth of Black studies programs and departments after 1968 triggered a wave of bibliographic scholarship. Colleges, universities, and

CFP: 10th Anniversary of Black Perspectives Celebration

February 2, 2024January 22, 2024 AAIHS Editors Black History, Black Perspectives, Blogging, Reseach, teaching

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is celebrating its 10th Anniversary! In 2014,

Rosa Parks, Radicalism, and Remembrance

February 1, 2024January 27, 2024 Ashley Farmer Activism, black feminism, Black radicalism, civil rights, Rosa Parks

This article was originally published on February 17, 2015 It’s Black History Month, which means that mainstream society pulls out