Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

John Potts and Radical Student Activism

November 1, 2023October 24, 2023 Candace Cunningham black intellectual history, education, HBCU history, Higher education, Resistance, teaching

Black educator Dr. John Foster Potts may be a largely unknown figure today, but in Jim Crow-era South Carolina he

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The Black Left and Political Repression

October 30, 2023October 29, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Left, CBFS Interview, interview, Radicalism

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Black Reconstruction in the Twenty-First Century

October 24, 2023October 18, 2023 Lacey P. Hunter 19th Century, American Civil War, American Democracy, citizenship, Civil Rights Movement, Voting Rights

  Peniel E. Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Basic Books,

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Manuel Zapata Olivella, Mestizaje and Black Politics in 1970s Colombia

October 11, 2023October 8, 2023 Laura Correa Ochoa #raceandlatinamerica, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America” Pan-Africanism is not typically associated with Colombia or

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Translating Global Antiblackness: An Author’s Response

September 15, 2023September 6, 2023 Lorgia García-Peña #TranslatingBlackness, black feminism, black internationalism, blackness

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. Translating Blackness comes from a very personal place—from my

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