The FBI and the Mischaracterization of Bayard Rustin
On November 22, Muckrock.com published a disturbing article claiming that Bayard Rustin “was working for the CIA.” The essay created
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Black Political Thought
Remaking Black Power: A New Book on Women and Black Power
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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How Gentrification and Displacement Are Remaking Boston
This post is part of our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. Ask anyone in Boston, “what’s going on in Roxbury?”
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Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals
In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of
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Radical Intellect: A New Book on Liberator Magazine
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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