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Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide

March 21, 2019August 12, 2022 Denise Lynn Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the

The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The

The Historical Significance of Black Queer Films

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 Emerald Rutledge Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Essex Hemphill, hip hop, Marlon Riggs, sexuality

In the context of the reemergence of Black nationalist rhetoric and ideologies in hip-hop music in the late 1980s and

Cardi B. and Black Women’s Political Discourse

March 5, 2019March 9, 2019 Alaina Morgan black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black women, Donald Trump, hip hop, music, racism

In January 2019, rapper Belcalis Almánzar, popularly known as Cardi B., took to social media to condemn President Trump for

Remembering Queen Mother Moore

March 1, 2019March 9, 2019 Shafeah M’Balia #QueenMotherMoore, Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism, Politics

Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.