The Notion of Progress in Black Social Movements
This post is part of our online roundtable on Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney Jr.’s From Rights to Lives.
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Black Political Thought
The Great Migration and Black Women’s Political Work
This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. There will never be
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Malcolm X, MLK, and the Call for a Cultural Revolution
Both Minister Malcolm X and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. are oftentimes referred to as civil rights activists. Peniel E.
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Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism
An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the transformative power
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Maulana Karenga, Operational Unity, and the Black Power Movement
Maulana Karenga, founder and chair of the Organization Us (Us), developed the concept of operational unity during the Black Power Movement. Several
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