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Remembering John O’Neal and the Free Southern Theater

March 25, 2019August 12, 2022 Erik Wallenberg Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Resistance, theater

John O’Neal, the co-founder of the Free Southern Theater (FST)–one of the cultural arms of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)–has

The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The

Therese Patricia Okoumou: Black Women’s Bodies and Public Protest

March 18, 2019March 31, 2019 Celeste Henery Activism, black protest, carceral state, police violence, Racial Violence

Tomorrow, March 19, Therese Patricia Okoumou will be sentenced for her protest climb of the Statue of Liberty this past

Rewriting Shirley Graham Du Bois

March 14, 2019August 12, 2022 Gerald Horne #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

Shirley Graham Du Bois and Black Liberation

March 13, 2019August 12, 2022 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The