Zeek Burse’s “Broke Man” and the Legacy of the Radical Blues
On his 2017 album XXII, vocal artist Zeek Burse features Paralee Knight on a track Knight co-wrote called “Broke Man.” The song moves
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Race
Interracial Intimacy in America: An Interview with Sheryll Cashin
In today’s post, Melody Shaff, a student in Political Science at Boston University, interviews Sheryll D. Cashin about her new book Loving: Interracial
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“Rikers: An American Jail”: A New Film on Mass Incarceration
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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Harold Cruse’s Ruthless Criticism
*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to
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White Supremacy, Nazism, and the Republican Party
This past summer, hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis mobilized in Charlottesville, Virginia to prove a point — that they were always here and
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