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Booker T. Washington and the White Fear of Black Charisma

First, the crowd gathered at the Atlanta Exposition on September 18, 1895, heard the band play “Dixie”; then they listened

This guest post is part of our blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

Since the 1980s, policymakers have extended the market logics of risk and profit to encompass all the basic necessities for

“Power concedes nothing without demand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one of his most cited speeches. “It never did and it

This is an edited excerpt of an interview I conducted with Charlie Cobb in October 2015. Perhaps best known as