Activism - AAIHS

Shirley Graham Du Bois’s Labor of Love

March 12, 2019August 12, 2022 Britt Rusert #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

Nina Yolande’s Lament

March 11, 2019August 12, 2022 Sandra Staton-Taiwo #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, poetry

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology

March 6, 2019August 12, 2022 Don S. Polite, Jr. Activism, Jim Crow, Politics, race, religion

The Women’s March, led by women of color activists such as Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, brought millions out to

Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

March 5, 2019March 9, 2019 Edward Dunsworth Activism, black politics, Politics, Resistance, South

As the primary setting for slavery, sharecropping, and racialized Southern rural poverty, agriculture has–for good reason–been principally portrayed as a

Remembering Queen Mother Moore

March 1, 2019March 9, 2019 Shafeah M’Balia #QueenMotherMoore, Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism, Politics

Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.