I’m excited to share that my debut book is on the way! 'Long Distance Runners: Black Women Radicals and the Struggle for Liberation' coming 2027! Bloomsbury UK/US is running a 10% discount right now, so please consider ordering directly to save some coins bloomsbury.com/uk/long-dist...
Tionne Alliyah Parris
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Historian |💭Black Women Radicals, Black Power & Continuities of Struggle✍🏾| Always up to something...
Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ
When I tell baby how Mama looked after him full time while prepping for a viva, I think this will be a good visual memory of our mornings... The cafetiere is his new favourite toy 😂
Delighted to share that my article 'Claudia Jones and Black Power...' is now award-winning! 🏅 Thanks to all at the American Communist History Journal who deliberated, and selected my piece for the Dan Leab Author Award 2025. If you haven't read it yet: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Claudia Jones and Black Power: A Close Reading of the West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News
When Claudia Jones was deported to Britain in 1955, the U.S. Government likely expected that the Communist threat she presented was finally neutralized. Yet, from the shores of Britain, Jones conti...
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www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat... The local and diasporic efforts that have shaped Black archives| Times Literary Supplement ✍🏽
Defiant libraries
Laura E. Helton’s Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black collectors created archives and remade history explores the labour and risks involved in assembling the archival collections held across the ...
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A Guide to Action ✍️ www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...
A Guide to Action
What can we learn from the lives and legacies of Black radical women? Tionne Alliyah Parris considers how the transnational activism of Claudia Jones, Vicki Garvin and Louise Thompson Patterson offers...
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'Shirley Graham Du Bois and Cold War Connectivity in the Struggle for Black Liberation' www.miamisocialsciences.org/home/ew1ns9g...
Shirley Graham Du Bois and Cold War Connectivity in the Struggle for Black Liberation — Miami Institute for the Social Sciences
By Tionne Alliyah Parris
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