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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Author: E. James West
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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A Black Woman Communist Candidate: Charlene Mitchell’s 1968 Presidential Campaign
This piece is the third installment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Click these links
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