Home  >  

Tag: black panther party

March 31, 2022

Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Ann Bingham)

Happy Women’s History Month! In celebration of this historical month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated by our staff featuring all authors who identify as women. Today we’re sharing a list from our Exhibits and Awards Manager Ann Bingham. Click here to see the previously shared lists and learn more about how Women’s History Month came about. If you’re interested in purchasing any of… Continue Reading Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Ann Bingham)

Categories African American Studies/British History/Civil War/Colonial, Revolutionary Era & Early American History/Gender Studies/History/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/LGBT Studies/Literature/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Reading Lists/Religion/Sociology/Women's Studies
March 3, 2022

Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Andreina Fernandez)

Happy Women’s History Month! Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week.” Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as “Women’s History Week.” In… Continue Reading Women’s History Month 2022 Reading List (Curated by Andreina Fernandez)

Categories African American Studies/American Studies/Biography / Autobiography/Gender Studies/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/LGBT Studies/Literature/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Political Science/Reading Lists/Sociology/Women's Studies
November 8, 2013

Alex Lubin: Exhuming Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat has meant many things to many people over the course of his life. To some he is a freedom fighter, and throughout the world he is often depicted in posters alongside Che Guevara. To others he is a terrorist. To the Nobel Prize Committee he is a peace-maker. Arafat has had many lives, and his reputation has been exhumed numerous times over his life and now, after his death.

What often gets overlooked about Arafat and the PLO is the impact he and his movement had on a global third-world movement in general, and on the Black freedom movement in particular. Continue Reading Alex Lubin: Exhuming Yasser Arafat

Categories Author blog entry/Current Events/Guest Bloggers/History/Middle Eastern Studies/Politics