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Medgar Evers’s Legacy of Organizing in Mississippi

April 15, 2019August 12, 2022 William Sturkey Activism, black politics, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, Politics

Although Medgar Evers is one of the most widely recognized figures of the Civil Rights Movement, many people do not

The Modern Black Convention Movement and Black Youth Leadership

April 2, 2019August 12, 2022 Dara Walker #NationWithinANation, Activism, black nationalism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

Historians and the Black Freedom Struggle in the North

April 1, 2019August 12, 2022 Jeanne Theoharis #NationWithinANation, Activism, black politics, Black Power, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within a Nation

The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The

Black Fans, Protest, and Power

March 8, 2019August 12, 2022 Louis Moore black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, race, racism

Playing the role of the heel, white wrestler Rod Rivera looked up at the segregated balcony in New Orleans’s Municipal