Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision of American Democracy
Martin Luther King Jr. approached history with a reverent understanding of the complex relationship between the secular and the sacred.
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Memory
Black Lives Matter: Not a Moment, But a Movement
Though it was first created as a hashtag in 2013 as a response to Trayvon Martin’s death at the hands
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‘The Untold Story of Marcus Garvey’: Interview with Filmmaker Roy T. Anderson
In today’s post, Christopher Shell, PhD Student in History at Michigan State University, interviews filmmaker Roy T. Anderson about his forthcoming
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Black Rebellion and the Political Imaginations of African American Teachers
Nat Turner became an impromptu topic of discussion in my third grade classroom. Ms. Todman had a way of getting
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Aretha Franklin, Sexual Violence, and the “Culture of Dissemblance”
Many have proposed that Black American cultural expressions created in the New World — jazz, the blues, gospel, R&B, the
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