Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality
Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.
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Black Political Thought
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead
Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME
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Totalitarian Century: A New Book on Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Speech Speaks: Arrested Development’s Mastermind Thinking Aloud
This month I had the opportunity to interview Speech from the music group, Arrested Development. This is the first part
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The Problem of Equality: Black Communists and the Women’s Charter
Black Communist Thyra Edwards was not privy to the language of equity, intersectionality, and identity politics used today to describe
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