“Thinking Black” Against the Carceral State: Angela Davis and Prisoner Defense Campaigns
The stirring directive sounded like the denouement of a legal thriller: “I am going to ask you, if you will,
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Black Political Thought
Beyond Respectability: A New Book on Black Female Public Intellectuals
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa
As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these
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Colorism as Racism: Garvey, Du Bois and the Other Color Line
One hundred years ago this month, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and thirteen associates gathered in a Harlem basement to found the
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The History and Significance of Kente Cloth in the Black Diaspora
This spring thousands of college students will march across commencement stages to receive their degrees. Many of these students will
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