Search Results for: Civil War

Dr. Carlos E. Russell and the Origins of Black Solidarity Day

September 14, 2021September 13, 2021 Kaysha Corinealdi black internationalism, black protest, Pan-Africanism

  A young Black woman demonstrator at a rally at the Capitol protests voting rights limitations contained in bills written

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Anti-Communism and A Raisin in the Sun

September 13, 2021September 12, 2021 Denise Lynn black intellectual history, black politics, Black radicalism

                           Lorraine Hansberry Speaking to an Audience, 1959 or

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Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming

September 10, 2021September 8, 2021 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black lives matter, education, Resistance

Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent in the United States. The

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Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII

September 9, 2021September 8, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky African Diaspora, black politics, Black radicalism

It has been argued that the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) neglected the struggle for African American equality during World War

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The Pittsburgh Courier’s Discursive Power, 1910-1940

September 8, 2021September 6, 2021 Adam Lee Cilli black intellectual history, black protest

“A Negro seaman whose ship was then in Boston Harbor was the first martyr in the cause of American independence,”

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