“History is Knowledge, Identity, and Power”: Lerone Bennett Jr., 1928–2018
When I found out about Lerone Bennett, Jr’s passing, I was immediately struck by his sense of poetic timing. In life, Bennett
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The Nubian Body, African Aesthetics, and Cultural Imagination
The excitement over the much-anticipated African-themed superhero film, Black Panther, has reached fever pitch among African Americans and Black communities
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An Internationalist Vision of Black History Month
Black History Month has always had an international outlook. From its origins as Negro History Week, started in 1926 by
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Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement
On July 4, 1964, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation congratulating
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Chokwe Lumumba and Black Nationalist Convergence
Eight months into his tenure as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba passed away on February 25, 2014. The sixty-six-year-old mayor
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