Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part II
Today’s post is the second part of Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson interview of Mari N. Crabtree on her
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Art
Aaron Douglas’ History Lesson on the Responsibility of Black Artists
In an interview with Fisk University professor Leslie Collins, Harlem Renaissance painter and educator Aaron Douglas recalled his admiration for
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Norman Lewis and the Responsibility of Presentness
This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The general consensus, scholarly and lay,
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James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and the Ever-Deferred Dream
This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Once Africans began being forced onto
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Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of
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