Black Identity - AAIHS

Black Power, Name Choices, and Self-Determination

On March 6, 1964, Nation of Islam (NOI) founder Elijah Muhammad announced that he was renaming Cassius Marcellus Clay as

It should go without saying, but I miss Leslie Brown. What she did for an entire generation of scholars can

The last time I spoke to Professor Leslie Brown was in May of this year. I was preparing to graduate

This guest post was originally published on Public Books and is reprinted here with permission. The author, Matthew Clair, is

On June 21, 2016, I wrote a blog post entitled, “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome Is Racist Idea,” which elicited positive and