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The Still Rejected Strain; or How Black Thought is Enough

October 25, 2017October 27, 2017 Josh Myers black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

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Charter Schools and the Black Independent School Movement

October 23, 2017October 25, 2017 Raven Moses Activism, black nationalism, teaching

In October 2016, the NAACP issued a formal statement advocating a national cessation of charter school expansion pending increased oversight

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“Rikers: An American Jail”: A New Film on Mass Incarceration

October 21, 2017October 24, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, mass incarceration, New York, prisons

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.

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Not a Classic: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

October 18, 2017October 21, 2017 Daniel Geary black intellectual history, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967).

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The Black Press and the Ku Klux Klan

October 18, 2017October 21, 2017 Felix Harcourt black intellectual history, Racial Violence

“Crouching, cringing, shrinking from both physical and intellectual light,” Chandler Owen wrote, “the Klan is a true anthropoid germ which

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