Celebrating Black Intellectual History–Then and Now
In “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” a video created for her high school history class that later went viral, Amandla
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CFP: 10th Anniversary of Black Perspectives Celebration
Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is celebrating its 10th Anniversary! In 2014,
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John Potts and Radical Student Activism
Black educator Dr. John Foster Potts may be a largely unknown figure today, but in Jim Crow-era South Carolina he
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Afrofuturism in the Classroom
The groundbreaking Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia Butler (2019), edited by Tarshia Stanley, features a powerful essay by my colleague
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Black Teachers and Liberation: A CBFS Interview
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated
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