“Black Enuf*”: A New Animated Documentary on Black Queer Identity
This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.
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Race
African Americans’ Civil Cases in the Jim Crow South
In 1910, 48-year-old Rebecca Sallee fell into an open hole on a city street in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, as she made
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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”
On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history
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Faith, Myths, and Black Prometheus
In A Black Theology of Liberation, James H. Cone controversially asserted, “If God is not for us, if God is not
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Black Identity Extremists: COINTELPRO 2017
On October 6, 2017 an FBI internal report identifying “Black Identity Extremists” (BIE) as a major threat to Law Enforcement
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