Today is the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Robert Greene II looks back on how Americans have commemorated the March at another landmark moments, and the urgency of good history and memory right now. #BlackPerspectives #BlackHistory #AAIHS #EverythingHasAHistory #histodons https://www.aaihs.org/on-the-sixtieth-anniversary-of-the-march-on-washington/

The forum kicks off with a post from Mickell Carter. Click the link to read her interview with Mark Anthony Neal!
#HipHop50 #AAIHS
https://www.aaihs.org/hip-hop-as-archival-practice-and-form-an-interview-with-mark-anthony-neal/

Black Perspectives' online forum celebrating Hip Hop's 50th Anniversary begins TODAY! Check out the full line-up from now to August 25th. #HipHop50 #AAIHS https://www.aaihs.org/online-forum-hip-hop-at-50/

Always read Karen Cook Bell. "Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity." Good piece on #AAIHS #Slavery #History #histodons #VastEarlyAmerica https://www.aaihs.org/black-resistance-and-slave-politics-in-lowcountry-georgia/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=black-resistance-and-slave-politics-in-lowcountry-georgia

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Have you registered for the #AAIHS conference yet? Why not? Register here: https://www.aaihs.org/conference-2023-general-information/

“Although not unswerving, a Black Christian confidence in America’s public purposefulness has endured over many years, expanding and contracting along the way in response to existing circumstances and events.” R. Drew Smith offers his thoughts on Black religion and American civics for #BlackPerspectives #AAIHS. #religion #BlackHistory #CivicEducation https://www.aaihs.org/black-religious-fostering-of-american-civic-ideals/

At #BlackPerspectives, Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo reviews Jessica Marie Johnson’s Wicked Flesh: “With intimacy and kinship as her guiding star, Johnson exposes a busy social world and elaborate practice that Black women engaged in and cultivated for their self-interest and protection in a changing world.” #VastEarlyAmerica #AAIHS https://www.aaihs.org/kinship-and-intimacy-in-black-womens-atlantic-world/

A few days delayed since I wasn't on work email over the weekend. Per sender: If you are interested in learning more information about King the person, before he became King the icon, the article below is a good way to be introduced to the influence of his family as well as the racial and social injustice he witnessed, that would later shape the icon he would become. #aaihs
https://www.aaihs.org/dr-king-and-the-foundation-of-a-black-intellectual-activist/

Women were far more central to organizing the 1963 March on Washington than its speaker roster suggests, as Kyle Brooks explains for #BlackPerspectives. #AAIHS #BlackHistory https://www.aaihs.org/the-morning-after-black-women-and-the-march-on-washington/

I will be at the AHA meeting in January, 2023. On Friday, 1/6 I will be at the affiliated society booth for the African American Intellectual History Society #AAIHS #AHA stop by and grab some swag!

“In general terms, transnational feminists understand that conditions of imperial domination transcended the local and must therefore be analyzed within a transnational frame.”

Tracing the Pan-African Foundations of Transnational Black Feminism | AAIHS https://www.aaihs.org/tracing-the-pan-african-foundations-of-transnational-black-feminism/

#AAIHS #BlackPerspectives #BlackHistory