Unite the Right, Colin Kaepernick, and Social Media
On April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson captured the crux of America’s race problem in a letter to Maine politician John
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Race
African Americans and the Classics: An Introduction
The history of African American engagement with Classical history, literature, and philosophy has been fraught with controversy and complexity. Much
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Remembering Afro-German Intellectual May Ayim
It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August
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Blackness, Pessimism, and the Human
There is a specter haunting black studies, black freedom struggles, humanism, and the politics of recognition. This recalcitrant specter currently
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The Fallacy of 1619: Rethinking the History of Africans in Early America
In 1619, “20. and odd Negroes” arrived off the coast of Virginia, where they were “bought for victualle” by labor-hungry
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