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Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory’

The work of popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. falls within a longer ‘anti-Lincoln tradition’ of African American intellectual thought–a tradition

In today’s post, blogger Annette Joseph-Gabriel interviews Robin Mitchell about her new book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies

The actor’s gift is to see themselves through the eyes of their audience, while maintaining an internal sense of sincerity

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have

According to Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism contends that “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for