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The Lost Black Scholar: A New Book on the Pioneering Anthropologist Allison Davis

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

In a 1968 interview, television personality Dick Cavett asked James Baldwin, renowned author-activist, what many white Americans at that time

No other woman – in life and after – occupies the place that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela does in South African politics.

*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making

On the night of February 11, 2018, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) hosted two sold out screenings for the