Teaching Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian Political Philosophy
In 1980, Abdias do Nascimento, one of Brazil’s greatest black activists and intellectuals, published a seminal essay titled “Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian
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Black Political Thought
Why We Need the #CharlestonSyllabus Now
On Friday, Sept. 23rd, the University of Georgia Press hosted the Charleston Syllabus Symposium at the University of Georgia. The
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Angela Davis and the Black Radical Tradition in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Over the past few days, hundreds of people joined Black Studies at the University of Texas for our first international
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“70: Remembering a Revolution” in Trinidad and Tobago
Last month, I wrote about how close ties between Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean shaped Black activism in Canada in
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#MuseumsRespondtoFerguson: An Interview with Aleia Brown and Adrianne Russell
This month I interviewed the founders of a new digital humanities project, #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson. Aleia Brown (left) is the co-founder of #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson
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