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Reclaiming the Tricontinental: Transnational Solidarity and Contemporary Struggles

November 9, 2018November 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Cuba

In a speech at the Hudson Institute on October 4, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence all but declared a new

Making Race in British Colonial North America

November 8, 2018November 26, 2018 Elise A. Mitchell race

When confronted with three eighteenth-century newspaper advertisements seeking a missing man from Connecticut named Ishmael Mux of “a white Complexion,”

Black Fists, Black Pride, and the 1968 Summer Olympics

November 7, 2018November 11, 2018 Louis Moore Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Resistance

Black fists. Black men. Black pride. That’s how we will always remember bronze medalist John Carlos and gold medalist Tommie

‘Sexuality and Slavery’: A New Book on Intimate Histories in the Americas

November 5, 2018November 11, 2018 J. T. Roane sexuality, slavery

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Black Rebellion and the Political Imaginations of African American Teachers

November 5, 2018November 11, 2018 Jarvis R. Givens black radical tradition, Black radicalism, education, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, teaching

Nat Turner became an impromptu topic of discussion in my third grade classroom. Ms. Todman had a way of getting