Ontological Terror: A New Book on Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black history
The United States and Colonial Zimbabwe: Pan-African Linkages
In 1965, the racially-driven political crisis in the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) entered a dramatic new
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Louise Thompson Patterson and Black Radical Politics
On September 16, 1984, exactly one week after Louise Thompson Patterson turned eighty-three years old, an extravaganza was held in
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The Role of Water in African American History
Flint, Michigan continues to confront a water crisis that, by all accounts, is a human tragedy. In 2014, the state of
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African American Civil War Soldiers: An Interview with John Clegg
This month, I had the opportunity to speak with John Clegg, founder of African American Civil War Soldiers, a new website that is
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