The Radical and Transnational Roots of Black History Month in Britain
In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, announced
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Author: E. James West
Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory’
The work of popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. falls within a longer ‘anti-Lincoln tradition’ of African American intellectual thought–a tradition
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The 1619 Project and the ‘Anti-Lincoln Tradition’
Earlier this year, the Pulitzer Prize Committee announced that this year’s prize for journalistic commentary would be awarded to New
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Eldridge Cleaver and the Afterlives of 1968
*Fifth and final instalment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential campaign* In the November 7, 1968
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Paul Boutelle’s 1968 Vice-Presidential Campaign
This piece is the fourth installment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Click these links
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