Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

The Gift of Black Folk and the Emancipation of American History

June 19, 2017June 21, 2017 Westenley Alcenat black intellectual history, reconstruction, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts

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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A New Book on the Movement’s History

June 17, 2017June 20, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, police brutality, Politics

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

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Black Radicalism, Repression, and the “Horne Biographical Method”

June 9, 2017June 12, 2017 Charisse Burden-Stelly #Horne, Communism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History Gerald Horne’s first biography on W.E.B.

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“Thinking Black” Against the Carceral State: Angela Davis and Prisoner Defense Campaigns

June 3, 2017June 7, 2017 Dan Berger Angela Davis, Black radicalism, mass incarceration

The stirring directive sounded like the denouement of a legal thriller: “I am going to ask you, if you will,

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Online Roundtable: Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History

May 14, 2017June 5, 2017 AAIHS Editors #Horne

June 5–10, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s wide-ranging scholarly contributions to African American history

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