Black history - AAIHS

Black Power, Name Choices, and Self-Determination

On March 6, 1964, Nation of Islam (NOI) founder Elijah Muhammad announced that he was renaming Cassius Marcellus Clay as

This syllabus was originally published on the website of the Anna Julia Cooper Center and is reprinted here with permission.

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing–announcing the publication of selected new books

Dear Brother Nate: I write to you as my brother because I cannot think of anything else to call you

Over the past seventy-two hours, the Internet has been abuzz over Nate Parker’s involvement in a seventeen-year-old rape case. Journalists