You Can’t Eat Freedom: A New Book on Rural South Activism after the Civil Rights Movement
This post is part of a recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in
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Civil Rights Movement
Fighting “Stop-and-Frisk” Policing from Rockefeller to Trump
In the latest of Donald Trump’s string of attempts to “court” black voters (clearly aimed at courting his lily-white voter
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The Radical Democracy of the Movement for Black Lives
“Black Lives Matter has cast a strobe-light on contemporary myths of racial progress, arguing correctly that the criminal justice system
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Black Lives Matter and the Price of the Ticket
“The policy agenda for Black Lives Matter has been relevant for as long as we have had Black lives.” You
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Reconsidering Jesse Jackson: The Caricature, The Person, The Politician-Part 4
This post, written by Tim Lacy, was originally published on the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s blog and is reprinted here with permission.
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