History, Memory, and the Power of Black Radio
Between 1948 and 1950, a radio series called Destination Freedom aired on WMAQ, a local Chicago NBC station. Richard Durham
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Resistance
On the Limits of Boycotts as a Political Tool
Corporate boycotts made headlines for the second time since October in the wake of the recent high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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Winning Our Freedoms Together: A New Book on African Americans and South Africans
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The Communist Reimagining of Black History
The American Communist Party was aware that history was a powerful tool. It frequently used history in its propaganda to
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Writing on Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. First, I want to take a moment to thank the
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