Amira Rose Davis and Maryam Aziz contributed articles to the spring 2021 special issue of The Journal of African American History, titled “New Directions in African American History.” Dr. Davis, assistant professor of history and African American studies, authored the article, “New Directions in African American Sports History: A Field of One’s Own” for the issue. Dr. Aziz, Richards Center and Africana Research Center postdoctoral Fellow in history, contributed the article, “They Punched Black: Martial Arts, Black Arts, and Sports in the Urban North and West, 1968–1979.” The JAAH is the leading scholarly publication in the field of African American history and is the official journal of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Renowned historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded the JAAH in 1916 as The Journal of Negro History.