On Hip Hop and Growing Up in Philadelphia: An Interview with MK Asante
This month I interviewed MK Asante. Asante is a best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, recording artist, and professor. He studied at the University of
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Black Identity
Black Left Student Radicalism of the 1970s: The February First Movement
During the 1970s, Black student radicalism in the United States, which began in the 1960s with organizations such as the
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On the Spiritual Geography of Black Working-Class Washington
In 1946, University of Chicago-trained anthropologist and religionist James Sydney Slotkin conducted a course in the anthropology and sociology department
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The Gift of Black Folk and the Emancipation of American History
“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A New Book on the Movement’s History
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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