Black Athletes, Anthem Protests, and the Spectacle of Patriotism
The new NFL anthem policy requires players to stand during the national anthem or face a fine. This decision is
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Race
W.E.B. Du Bois, Gender, and Black History
In Axel’s Castle, critic Edmund Wilson wrote of Gertrude Stein’s enigmatic novel of nearly a thousand pages, The Making of Americans,
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Black Bookstores and the Black Power Movement: An Interview with Paul Coates
In this post, blogger Joshua Clark Davis interviews activist Paul Coates–the father of author Ta-Nehisi Coates–on his life and early
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Haitian Writer Baron de Vastey and Black Atlantic Humanism: An Interview with Marlene L. Daut
In today’s post, Julia Gaffield, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, interviews Marlene L. Daut on her new book Baron
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Black Swimmers and Diasporic Understandings of Water
James “Jim” Clarke was a Guyanese-born celebrated swimmer and diasporic pioneer. I first learned of him through a photo at the International
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