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The “Radical” King and a Usable Past

April 4, 2022April 3, 2022 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black politics, Civil Rights Movement

Last September, Black Perspectives published a piece about Martin Luther King, Jr’s use of the year 1619 as a waypoint

Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology

April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 Bala James Baptiste Historiography, ideology, oppression, race, racism, white supremacy

This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late

La Afrovenezolanidad: A Historiography of the Black Experience in Venezuela

March 30, 2022March 29, 2022 Menika Dirkson Afro-Venezuelan, Historiography, slavery, South America, Venezuela

During the month of May, Venezuelans celebrate Afro-Descendant Month in honor of the social, political, economic, and cultural contributions Afro-Venezuelans

Malcolm X’s Gospel

March 28, 2022March 27, 2022 Ellen McLarney black intellectual history, black nationalism

In April 1957, Malcolm X began writing his “God’s Angry Men” column in the New York Amsterdam News, immediately after the brutal police

The Legacy of the Gary Convention

March 25, 2022March 24, 2022 Robert Greene II #GaryConvention50, Amiri Baraka, Black Power, Congressional Black Cacus, Harold Cruse, Jesse Jackson

The long shadow of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, continues to overwhelm Black political and intellectual