Beauty, Black Power, and Black Student Activism in Memphis
*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light “Everybody come in that’s going to jail with
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Featured Books
‘The Bone and Sinew of the Land’: An Interview with Historian Anna-Lisa Cox
In today’s post, blogger Adam McNeil interviews Anna-Lisa Cox about her new book, The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s
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‘From the Tricontinental to the Global South’: A New Book on Race and Transnational Solidarity
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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African Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement
The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council
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Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College
In 1911, Richard Greener was introduced to an audience as “‘the first colored graduate of Harvard,’ ‘ex-Consul to Russia,’ and ‘the
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