Search Results for: Black Power

Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects

September 9, 2017September 12, 2017 Candace Borders Black women, housing, Missouri, St. Louis

An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,

Read more

Blackness, Pessimism, and the Human

September 5, 2017September 8, 2017 Joseph Winters Afro-pessimism, humanism, race, Racial Violence, violence

There is a specter haunting black studies, black freedom struggles, humanism, and the politics of recognition. This recalcitrant specter currently

Read more

Black Periodicals and the Politics of Racial Uplift

July 29, 2017August 2, 2017 Kevin C. Quin black press, Chicago

During the mid-twentieth century, the economic growth following World War II marked an incredible period of production and consumption in

Read more

Black Women’s Holy Ghost Work: Then and Now

July 28, 2017August 2, 2017 Judith Casselberry Harlem, religion

“East Harlem leaves had the red tips of early autumn when Amaryllia (Lillie) Jones ventured down E. 131st Street in

Read more

New Age Activism: Maria W. Stewart and Black Lives Matter

July 24, 2017July 29, 2017 Westenley Alcenat Activism, black intellectual history, black lives matter, Black women, Gender

The 1830s was the high-tide of Jacksonianism, an era many historians consider the nadir of early American history. Although universal

Read more