Protest, Property, and the Black Press
The centennial of the Tulsa Massacre earlier this year provided a moment to reflect on perhaps the worst single incidence
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Author: E. James West
British Racial Violence and Transatlantic Black Activism
February of this year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the killing of Rolan Adams, a Black British teenager who was
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Naming and Self-identification in the Black Community
Naming is a complicated business. Names play a vital role in defining group identity and the identity of individuals who
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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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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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