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Black Identity Extremists: COINTELPRO 2017

November 13, 2017November 15, 2017 Robyn C. Spencer black nationalism, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, police brutality, white supremacy

On October 6, 2017 an FBI internal report identifying “Black Identity Extremists” (BIE) as a major threat to Law Enforcement

The Enduring Crisis of Black Intellectuals In America

October 27, 2017October 30, 2017 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Harold Cruse

*This is the concluding essay of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro

The Still Rejected Strain; or How Black Thought is Enough

October 25, 2017October 27, 2017 Josh Myers black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

Harold Cruse’s Ruthless Criticism

October 20, 2017October 21, 2017 Andrew Hartman black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

Chico Neblett and Bobby Seale (back) leading audience with a Black Power salute at the Black Community Survival Conference, March 30, 1972 (Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Stanford University Libraries)

Black Power in Papua New Guinea

October 17, 2017October 21, 2017 Quito J. Swan Black Arts Movement, Black Power

The Black Power Movement stretched across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific ocean worlds in both expected and surprising ways. Scholarship