Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, colonialism, imperialism, Soviet Union, Third World Women’s Alliance

On July 4, 1964, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation congratulating

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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

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The New Negro: A New Book on Black Philosopher Alain Locke

February 3, 2018February 8, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Alain Locke, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, Philadelphia

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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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

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The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities

January 22, 2018January 30, 2018 Lavelle Porter documentary, education, film, student activism, W.E.B. Du Bois

One of the most painful and haunting images that I recall from Stanley Nelson’s documentary, Tell Them We Are Rising:

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