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Rethinking Black Life on Turtle Island

March 27, 2019August 12, 2022 Rachel Zellars African Diaspora, Canada, Resistance, slavery

The history of Black peoples in Canada prior to the mid-nineteenth century is a complex and transnational story. In popular

‘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