Black History in a Month? The Sisyphean Logic of Black History Month, by Amirah Muhammad
As a moniker, ‘Black History Month’ does a lot of heavy lifting. You’re talking about all the histories of Blackness around the world in just one month? It is the definition of a Sisphyean task. This assessment might seem jaded, but it comes from the pendulum swing between erasure and celebration that Black histories experience in mainstream culture and society …
Attending the Stuart Hall Foundation Autumn Keynote Speech
I’m halfway through the 2nd year of my PhD in Politics at the University of York and I’m a YCEDE scholar. Outside of academia, I’m a community organizer and activist. When I applied to my PhD program in 2022, I had one career goal in mind and that was to use my platform to advocate for social justice issues through …