“Held in Trust by History:” The Intellectual Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.
On the morning of December 11, 2016, a notice in the Chicago area news read as follows: “Author Lerone Bennett
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Black Identity
Race, Belonging, and Unconditional White Amnesty
At a raucous 2016 campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, then-candidate Donald Trump outlined his plan to curb “illegal immigration” and
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#AAIHS2017: Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History
The past year has certainly been an exciting one for the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). In the months
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Race and Imperialism in Canada in the 1960s
In recent years, scholars and activists in Canada have been drawing more attention to the country’s often-unacknowledged history of slavery.
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Booker T. Washington and the White Fear of Black Charisma
First, the crowd gathered at the Atlanta Exposition on September 18, 1895, heard the band play “Dixie”; then they listened
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