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‘The Drum Major Instinct’: A New Book about Martin Luther King, Jr.

March 25, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane Activism, black intellectual history, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

March 5, 2019March 9, 2019 Edward Dunsworth Activism, black politics, Politics, Resistance, South

As the primary setting for slavery, sharecropping, and racialized Southern rural poverty, agriculture has–for good reason–been principally portrayed as a

Audley Moore and the Modern Reparations Movement

February 28, 2019March 9, 2019 Ashley Farmer #QueenMotherMoore, Activism, africa, African Diaspora, Audley Moore, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black Leaders, Black Marxism, black nationalism, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, Black political thought, black politics, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Communist Party, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Marxism, Pan-Africanism, race, racism, reparations, slavery

Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.

Black Women’s Anti-Colonizationist Political Thought

February 22, 2019August 12, 2022 Adam McNeil abolitionism, Black political thought, Black women, slavery

Black women have always been at the forefront of Black political movements. From Maria Stewart and Ida B. Wells-Barnett in

The Radical Diversity of Liberator Magazine

February 11, 2019March 31, 2019 Fred Carroll #RadicalIntellect, Activism, black internationalism, black nationalism, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Pan-Africanism, Radical Intellect

This post is part of our online roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect Scholars of print culture struggle to quantify the influence of