Popular Culture - AAIHS

Can Superheroes Be Woke?: Black Liberation and the Black Panther

February 24, 2018March 7, 2018 Vincent Haddad #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace, comics, race

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by

The Nubian Body, African Aesthetics, and Cultural Imagination

February 15, 2018February 16, 2018 Janell Hobson africa, Afrofuturism, Black women, comic books, film, hip hop

The excitement over the much-anticipated African-themed superhero film, Black Panther, has reached fever pitch among African Americans and Black communities

Black Women’s Histories and the Power of Truth-Telling

January 16, 2018January 20, 2018 Janell Hobson Activism, Black women

Not long after Oprah Winfrey, the iconic media mogul and pioneer for African American women in film, television, and journalism,

Rap Dreams in South Central: An Interview with Jooyoung Lee

January 6, 2018January 10, 2018 Darryl Robertson #HipHopSeries, hip hop, music, Performance

In today’s post, Darryl Robertson, a graduate student at Fordham University, interviews Jooyoung Lee about his new book, Blowin’ Up: Rap Dreams in South Central, which

The Race to Preserve African American Radio

December 21, 2017December 27, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Black Power, Civil Rights Movement

What are the sounds of African American history? And how can we preserve those sounds? Those are the central questions