“The Power and Importance of Ideas:” Grace Lee Boggs’s Revolutionary Vision
In the opening lines of her autobiography, Living for Change, Grace Lee Boggs remarked: “Had I not been born female
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Go for Broke: #WallerCountySyllabus
As a result of events in Ferguson related to the death of Michael Brown, last summer Georgetown University history professor
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“Concede Nothing” – How to Remember a Storm Ten Years Later
This year marked ten years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. To say New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would
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Below are new books in African American intellectual history soon to be published or already published within the last 6
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On August 8th, 2015, Black Lives Matter “shut down” a Bernie Sanders presidential campaign event in Seattle, Washington. Taking the
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