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Making the Revolution Irresistible: An Interview with Aishah Shahidah Simmons

October 26, 2020November 9, 2020 Keelyn Bradley LGBT

Editor’s note: In honor of LGBTQ History Month, this week we’re revisiting pieces published on Black queer history, thought, and/or

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Inculcated Forgetfulness at a New England Port

June 20, 2019June 13, 2019 Lise Breen abolitionism, Activism, black politics, black protest, Civil War, Frederick Douglass, Post-Civil War, race, racism, slave trade, slavery, South

In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,

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Look Good, Do Good: Madam C.J. Walker and Rihanna’s Beauty Politics

May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 Tiffany M. Gill #WalkerCentennial, Activism, Beauty Politics, black feminism, black politics, black protest, Black women, capitalism, Madam CJ Walker, race

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death. As

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Digital Du Bois

May 13, 2019April 30, 2019 Lavelle Porter Activism, art, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, Paris, race, W.E.B. Du Bois

The publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America gives new meaning to Du Bois’s famous sentence from

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Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Studies

April 8, 2019August 12, 2022 Marius Kothor africa, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black politics, Black Studies, education, Pan-Africanism, race, racism, white supremacy

In the United States, African scholars are conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies. For years, Black scholars have

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