Tag: May Ayim

  • There have always been people suffering from anti-Blackness. And May Ayim highlights the continuity of the Black experience—not only her own, but those before her as well.

  • The Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA) is collaborating with the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto in hosting the 3-day SSHRC-funded conference, “Transnational Perspectives on Black Germany” in Toronto, Ontario, on May 23-25, 2018.

  • As a talented and well-known writer at home and abroad, her poetry and prose served as a form of intellectual activism and as a medium to incite socio-political change. In fact, Ayim derived a key source of political and emotional energy from her writing, which was a constitutive element of her activism.

  • BLM organizers such as Wacker, Biedermann, Apraku, and Mayen are also building upon a tradition of Black women’s radical activism in Germany. For example, Fasia Jensen was a Black German political songwriter and peace activist who remained active in left-wing internationalist and anti-racist circles in the post-1945 period.

  • I received more than a few raised eyebrows after describing the recent trip my wife and I took to attend the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey’s Second Annual Convention at Barnard College in New York. If you are tempted to believe that being both Black and German is an oxymoron; think again.

  • Meeting with Dagmar Schultz and Ria Cheatom FemGeniuses: Where feminism meets genius! 2014-05-29 Kaimara Herron It is only the first week of our stay in Berlin, but it feels like an eternity since my plane took-off from O’Hare. But this is certainly not a complaint. We have had the opportunity to do such amazing things…

  • Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012 Annual Convention What is the Black German Experience? History, Performance Popular & Visual Cultures Barnard College, Columbia University New York, New York 2012-08-10 through 2012-08-11 Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey…

  • Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012 Annual Convention: Call for Papers Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012-01-31 Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey (BGCSNJ) will be held at Barnard College in New York City on…

  • Berlin marks Black History Month but the struggle goes on Deutsche Welle 2012-02-16 Anne Thomas Berlin has become more diverse and the situation for Afro-Germans has improved, but it’s still hard to get a job or an apartment. Black History Month highlights the challenges faced by over 2 percent of the population. A black Portuguese…

  • Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story Third World Newsreel 1997 28 minutes Germany German with English Subtitles Maria Binder A moving documentary about the life and untimely death of Ghanaian-German poet, academic and political personality May Ayim. Ayim was one of the founders of the Black German Movement, and her research on the…