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/

If all you know about Sister Souljah is the “moment” in which Bill Clinton chastised her for political gain, you have much to learn from Eva Bohler’s contribution to the #HipHopAt50 forum at #BlackPerspectives. #BlackHistory #HipHop https://www.aaihs.org/the-lyrical-activism-of-sister-souljah/

In the latest entry in the #BlackPerspectives forum on #HipHopAt50, Christopher Rounds explores the role of hip-hop and rap in introducing Malcolm X to American youth in the 1980s and 1990s. #histodons #BlackHistory #MusicHistory https://www.aaihs.org/chuck-d-brought-me-here-rap-race-and-radical-politics/

“Post-Civil War conversations surrounding social welfare were ultimately undercut by policy that transcended sectionalism and wove racial stereotypes into the very fabric of progressive ideologies.” Ryan Keating writes about the establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau, Pension Bureau, and other relief agencies in the years after the US Civil War. #EverythingHasAHistory #BlackPerspectives #BlackHistory #histodons @histodons https://www.aaihs.org/social-welfare-and-the-politics-of-race-in-the-post-civil-war-south/

Black Perspectives seeks potential contributions for a series on Black women in 19c America — proposals are due April 15. #BlackPerspectives #BlackHistory #CFP @histodons https://www.aaihs.org/cfp-black-women-and-19th-century-america/

#BlackPerspectives seeks posts for a series on democracy and ideas about race in Latin America. Proposals due April 15. #history #cfp https://www.aaihs.org/cfp-ideas-of-race-in-latin-america/

“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/

As part of a forum on “Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy,” Thomas Cryer details the exhaustive efforts of historian John Hope Franklin to document the experience of Black Americans in World War II—work that was repeatedly thwarted amidst the racism of postwar America. #BlackPerspectives https://www.aaihs.org/john-hope-franklin-and-wwii-as-a-crisis-of-democracy/

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/

At Black Perspectives, Dylan O’Hara reviews Zebulon Miletsky’s new book, Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle. #histodons #bookreview #BlackPerspectives https://www.aaihs.org/new-englands-unsung-black-liberation-movement/

“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