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Liberator Magazine and Black Activism: An Author’s Response

February 15, 2019March 31, 2019 Christopher Tinson #RadicalIntellect, Black Power, black press, black radical tradition, Black radicalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect Let me start by first thanking Pete Beveridge, Cynthia A. Young, Hasan

Black Radicalism in the Tumultuous 1960s

February 12, 2019March 31, 2019 Hasan Kwame Jeffries #RadicalIntellect, Activism, black internationalism, black politics, black press, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Radical Intellect

This post is part of our online roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect In Radical Intellect, Christopher M. Tinson writes “a political and cultural history”

Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom

February 6, 2019March 31, 2019 Denise Lynn criminal justice system, sexual violence

On August 3, 1952, Ruby McCollum walked into Dr. C. LeRoy Adams’s medical practice in Live Oak, Florida and shot

‘The Struggle is Eternal’: An Interview with Joseph R. Fitzgerald

January 14, 2019January 29, 2019 Ashley Farmer Activism, biography, Black Power, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow

In today’s post, Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of

Black Athletes and the Civil Rights Movement

January 9, 2019January 29, 2019 Louis Moore black protest, Civil Rights Movement, segregation, sports

Elgin Baylor would not shut up and dribble. Baylor, who grew up in segregated Washington, D.C., had grown tired of