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Chokwe Lumumba and Black Nationalist Convergence

February 6, 2018February 9, 2018 Dan Berger Activism, black nationalism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Politics

Eight months into his tenure as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba passed away on February 25, 2014. The sixty-six-year-old mayor

End the Isolation of Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown): An Open Letter

February 4, 2018February 8, 2018 AAIHS Editors Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, carceral state, Political Prisoners, prisons

The following post is an open letter by Arun Kundnani to the Bureau of Prisons and State of Georgia asking

A Riot in the Social Order: On Race, Religion, and Power

February 2, 2018February 5, 2018 J. T. Roane religion

*A version of this essay originally appeared on The Immanent Frame, a forum of the Social Science Research Council, as part

Reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr.’s Radical Vision

February 1, 2018February 4, 2018 Richard D. Benson II Activism, black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Pan-Africanism

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address, “Keep Moving from This Mountain,” at Spelman College’s annual Founders Day commemoration

African American Novelist Frank Yerby’s Writings on Race

January 31, 2018February 4, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Civil War, literature, poverty, reconstruction, South

African American novelist Frank Yerby grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where he attended Paine College. Later he attended Fisk University and taught briefly