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James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual

June 23, 2022August 4, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. biography, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, James Farmer, Jim Crow

James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from

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Black Genealogy After Alex Haley’s Roots

June 17, 2022June 16, 2022 Menika Dirkson africa, Alex Haley, Genealogy, Roots, television, West Africa

“A lot has been stolen from Black Americans. A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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Seeing May Ayim through Her Friends’ Eyes

June 13, 2022June 12, 2022 Tiffany Florvil black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

Black German poet and activist May Ayim would have turned sixty-two years old on May 3. She was born in

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Resurrecting Shirley Chisholm from Symbol to Life

June 1, 2022May 31, 2022 Anastasia Curwood Congressional Black Cacus, Jesse Jackson, Politics, Shirley Chisholm, Sojourner Truth

Fifteen years ago, I decided to write a biography of a Black woman. My scholarly genealogy pushed me toward such

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