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Black Nationalist Women’s Global Visions of Freedom

September 24, 2018October 1, 2018 Carole Boyce Davies Amy Ashwood Garvey, black nationalism, black women's internationalism, Claudia Jones, Set the World on Fire

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire A welcome addition to the library of

‘BlacKkKlansman’ and William Shockley’s Eugenic Agenda

September 18, 2018September 19, 2018 Alexandra Fair Black film, Black women, film, Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy

Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman‘ is a gladiatorial depiction of racism as a past returned into the present. In one of many

The NFL and a History of Black Protest

September 12, 2018September 16, 2018 Louis Moore sports

In 1944, Black activist and sportswriter Halley Harding, argued that “most persons, corporations or business almost always forget the people or incidents

Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

August 15, 2018August 27, 2018 Jon Hale civil rights, criminal justice system, law, racism, segregation, South, student activism

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as

The Connections Between Urban Development and Colonialism

August 8, 2018August 16, 2018 Paige Glotzer capitalism, colonialism, gentrification, Racial Violence, racism, segregation

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Paige