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Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ and the Archive of Freedom

September 23, 2020September 22, 2020 Natasha Lightfoot #CapitalismandSlavery, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

The Complexities of Black Feminism in Europe

September 17, 2020September 16, 2020 Julia Chinyere Oparah Black women

Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande’s powerful anthology of writings by feminists of African descent, To Exist is to Resist: Black

The History of Black Women and Internationalism

July 22, 2020July 20, 2020 Robert Greene, II black internationalism, black nationalism, Black women, Gender

In 1975, the Black Radical magazine Freedomways published a tribute in celebration of the end of the International Women’s Year,

Black Archives Take Center Stage

July 13, 2020July 12, 2020 Say Burgin #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalBlackTheatre, archives, Black radicalism, Black women, methods, Performance, Resistance, theater

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical Black Theatre in The

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