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Mae Mallory: Forgotten Black Power Intellectual

June 3, 2016June 2, 2016 Ashley Farmer black radical tradition

On October 2, 1962 journalists at the Chicago Defender interviewed Mae Mallory, a prisoner at the Cuyahoga County Jail in

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When Scholars Cry: Celebrating the Career of Thomas C. Holt

May 28, 2016June 4, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount black intellectual history, black politics, black protest

If you’ve never seen a historian cry, you’re probably hanging out with the wrong historians. The day you see multiple

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Fire in Babylon and The Racial Politics of West Indian Cricket

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 Paul Hébert black internationalism, C.L.R. James, Caribbean

“What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” asked C.L.R. James in Beyond a Boundary, his 1962 study

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Remembering Slavery and Freedom

May 25, 2016May 25, 2016 Christopher Bonner emancipation

What would a memorial to slavery look like? What story would it tell? What function would we want it to

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Marable’s Malcolm: A Revisitation

May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 Russell Rickford black intellectual history, black nationalism, Malcolm X, Manning Marable

Writing about Malcolm X can feel like stepping into a whirlpool. The further one ventures beneath the currents, the more

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