The “Radical” King and a Usable Past
Last September, Black Perspectives published a piece about Martin Luther King, Jr’s use of the year 1619 as a waypoint
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Race
Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology
This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late
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Malcolm X’s Gospel
In April 1957, Malcolm X began writing his “God’s Angry Men” column in the New York Amsterdam News, immediately after the brutal police
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Black Mayors, Black Politics, and the Gary Convention
The National Black Political Convention of 1972 saw many national giants on the Black political scene with Amiri Baraka and
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Northern Black People’s Freedom Struggle in the Nineteenth Century
During the mid-nineteenth-century, Black people collectively fought for racial equality and social justice within the U.S. The scholarship of historians,
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