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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State

November 21, 2023December 1, 2023 Frances O'Shaughnessy Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance

In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through

Womanist Theology and A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement

November 17, 2023November 7, 2023 A’Dorian Murray-Thomas black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Resistance

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ My grandmother stood neither silent nor conspicuous in her daily

The Legal History of Travel Discrimination

November 2, 2023October 29, 2023 Rebecca Dudley book review, civil rights, Jim Crow, racism, Resistance

Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,

The Black Left and Political Repression

October 30, 2023October 29, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Left, CBFS Interview, interview, Radicalism

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

Online Forum–Hip Hop at 50

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 AAIHS Editors #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

August 14, 2023 to August 25, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting