Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of

Not long ago I had the opportunity to visit The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Power! exhibition,

Nowhere does ‘the perfect become the enemy of the good’ so incessantly than in contemporary debates over reparations. Perhaps this

“The environmental movement is, in my view, the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity in the modern world” said Myron

American historians have long traced the genesis of the Black Power movement to 1966. I would argue, however, that one