Race, Religion and Radicalism: King and Du Bois
*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. On the occasion of a dual anniversary—the year we
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Black Political Thought
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Representation of Black Higher Education
*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. In a previous post for Black Perspectives, I wrote
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An Alternative View of Du Bois’s Talented Tenth
*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. W. E. B. Du Bois published one of his
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Set the World on Fire: A New Book on Black Nationalist Women’s Activism
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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“History is Knowledge, Identity, and Power”: Lerone Bennett Jr., 1928–2018
When I found out about Lerone Bennett, Jr’s passing, I was immediately struck by his sense of poetic timing. In life, Bennett
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