Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision of American Democracy

November 14, 2018November 19, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, race

Martin Luther King Jr. approached history with a reverent understanding of the complex relationship between the secular and the sacred.

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Online Forum: Frederick Douglass @ 200

November 12, 2018November 26, 2018 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum

November 26-30, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Frederick Douglass on

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‘The Untold Story of Marcus Garvey’: Interview with Filmmaker Roy T. Anderson

November 9, 2018November 11, 2018 Chris Shell #FilmFeatures, Jamaica, Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanism, Rastafarianism

In today’s post, Christopher Shell, PhD Student in History at Michigan State University, interviews filmmaker Roy T. Anderson about his forthcoming

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Reclaiming the Tricontinental: Transnational Solidarity and Contemporary Struggles

November 9, 2018November 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Cuba

In a speech at the Hudson Institute on October 4, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence all but declared a new

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The Life and Legacy of Political Scientist Hanes Walton, Jr.

November 7, 2018November 11, 2018 Daniel HoSang black intellectual history, black politics, race

In 1970, Vincent Harding contributed an essay to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Black Studies titled “Black Students

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