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Essence as Archive on the Occasion of its Golden Anniversary

July 3, 2020June 28, 2020 Siobhan Carter-David Beauty Politics, Black women, fashion, journalism

Writer and image activist Michaela Angela Davis argues that the creation of Vibe magazine represented the serious documentation of hip-hop culture; that

Celebrating 50 Years of Essence as a Black Women’s Archive

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Jacinta R. Saffold Black women, Gender, literature

Essence Magazine occupies a distinct position within the continuum of Black culture as an aspirational lifestyle magazine, grounded by a

Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: A New Book on Popular Black History in Postwar America

April 17, 2020April 12, 2020 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history, journalism, popular culture

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Black Madness and Thinking Resistantly

March 11, 2020March 10, 2020 Christopher Baswell #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMadness, disability, Gender, literature

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness “[D]emonstration and acknowledgment

Re-Reading Madness and Blackness in Black Women’s Fiction

March 10, 2020March 9, 2020 Anna Hinton #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMadness, disability, literature

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Black Madness ::