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"Fierce encounter with bloodhounds." New York Public Library Digital Collections.

David Walker and the Problem of American Consensus

February 7, 2017April 8, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, civil rights, emancipation, racism, slavery

There are many different ways to teach the historical development of African American political history. One way is in the

Dr. George Simkins, Jr. Source: Greensboro Medical Society.

Civil Rights and Healthcare: Remembering Simkins v. Cone (1963)

February 4, 2017February 7, 2017 Ezelle Sanford III civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, law

Upon her release from L. Richardson Memorial Hospital’s maternity ward in Greensboro, North Carolina, my grandmother, Ann Wilson Scales, walked

Afro-Brazilian Feminists and the Fight for Racial and Gender Inclusion

February 2, 2017March 10, 2017 Jaimee A. Swift Afro-Brazilians, Black women, Brazil, Gender, Latin America

In 1979, Afro-Brazilian feminist Leila Gonzalez wrote a critique of the National Encounter of Women that drew much-needed attention to

Race, History, and the #ScienceMarch

January 30, 2017March 13, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella black politics, Donald Trump, Politics, Trumpism

Donald Trump is an anti-science president. In fact, his entire raison d’être—perhaps unsurprisingly—stands at cross-purposes with the scientific method, systematic

Donald Trump holds a roundtable meeting with the Republican Leadership Initiative in New York, Aug. 25, 2016. Dr. Ben Carson is seated next to Trump at center. Source: Grandmother Africa.

Donald Trump’s Old Deal for Black America

January 29, 2017February 1, 2017 Jessica Ann Levy capitalism, Donald Trump, Politics, presidents, racism

On January 20, 2017, the world watched—many in horror—as Donald Trump was officially sworn in as the forty-fifth president of