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Harold Cruse’s Ruthless Criticism

October 20, 2017October 21, 2017 Andrew Hartman black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking near the UN in 1967. Source: NY Daily News.

Not a Classic: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

October 18, 2017October 21, 2017 Daniel Geary black intellectual history, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967).

The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

October 16, 2017October 21, 2017 Alyssa Collins black feminism, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, intersectionality, law, religion, sexuality

In today’s post, Alyssa Collins, PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, interviews Rosalind Rosenberg

The Soul of Black Comics: An Interview with John Jennings

October 14, 2017October 17, 2017 Julian Chambliss #comicsandrace

This month, I had the opportunity to speak with John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and a Cooperating Faculty

Charles Burnett and the Significance of Black Independent Cinema

October 2, 2017October 4, 2017 Justin Gomer Black film, film, poverty, television, white supremacy

When Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight won the best picture Oscar earlier this year, I shared my optimism on this blog about the