Progressive Movements and the Importance of Failure
Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times could not have arrived
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James Baldwin and the 1980s: A New Book on the Iconic Writer’s Last Decade
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 Capitalist Foundations of Racialization
Racialization—one process of regulating, organizing, and subjecting populations through capital and labor—is integral to and endemic in the capitalist world-system. It
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“Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika
An impressive assortment of Black radicals gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence. It was not Philadelphia 1776, of course,
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Milwaukee: 200 Nights and a Tragedy
*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. The tragic murder of Dr.
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