Black Charleston and the Battle over Confederate Statues
On January 9, 2018, the Charleston City Council deferred voting on a proposed new plaque for the John C. Calhoun
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Memory
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Tradition of Radical Blackness
This year marks the 50th anniversary of not only Martin Luther King Jr.’s April 4, 1968 assassination, but also the massive
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: A New Book on the Civil Rights Movement
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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François Duvalier and the Misuse of Martin Luther King, Jr.
On the morning of April 9, 1968, the Haitian political elite joined the US diplomatic core in the Port-au-Prince Cathedral.
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Black Power and the Detroit High School Organizing Tradition
This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. The sight of National Guard tanks rolling down the streets of Detroit
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