‘Dockworker Power’: Transnational Struggles for Justice
Dockworkers are a favorite subject for many labor historians—including myself. Historically, they have proven themselves reliably radical and strike-prone, and
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Black Internationalism
Between Radicalism and Repression: Walter Rodney’s Revolutionary Praxis
On June 13, 1980, the Black Marxist, Pan-Africanist, historian, and scholar-activist Walter Rodney was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana.1 That year, students
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Frederick Douglass and a Diplomacy of Blackness
*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each
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Black Women’s Anti-War and Anti-Colonial Activism
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated
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North Korea’s Unlikely History with Black Radicals
In 1969, Eldridge Cleaver, then a leader of the Black Panther Party, a radical organization based in Oakland that advocated
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