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Seeing May Ayim through Her Friends’ Eyes

Black German poet and activist May Ayim would have turned sixty-two years old on May 3. She was born in

The ax forgets, but the tree remembers. – African proverb “Forgetting is the true death.” – Mama Koko Zauditu Selassie,

“I think of invention as a gift to the reader,” writer and professor Bridgett Davis said. The moment you put

May 31, 2022 to June 7, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting

This July 7th will mark the 181st anniversary of the formation of the first Black student organization in American higher