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The Rejection of CRT in the Southern Baptist Convention

October 30, 2024October 30, 2024 Rev. Ralph Douglas West Black church, Jim Crow, race, slavery

The May 1995 issue of Christianity Today, included the report of a leading African American voice in the Southern Baptist

Celebrating Black Intellectual History–Then and Now

October 24, 2024October 25, 2024 Lois Leveen black intellectual history, teaching

In “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” a video created for her high school history class that later went viral, Amandla

Revisiting Salaria Kea’s Story

October 23, 2024October 21, 2024 Gina Benavidez black feminism, black internationalism, Transnational Feminism

During the interwar period, Salaria Kea became one of the most famous Black American antifascist women of the early 20th

A Critique of Black Capitalism in an American Horror Film

October 22, 2024October 20, 2024 Kaela Buchanan and Yasmine Guy popular culture, race, Racial Capitalism

The film, Candyman (1992), is a Blaxploitation film, a reactional Black revenge story that seeks to challenge white racism, privilege,

Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism

October 21, 2024November 12, 2024 Nancy A. Andoh black intellectual history, black radical tradition, book review

An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the transformative power