Search Results for: Frederick Douglass

The Black Convention Movement and Black Politics in Nineteenth-Century America

October 18, 2018November 1, 2018 Stephen Robinson black politics, civil rights, Politics, race

African American leaders throughout the nineteenth century recognized the significance of creating and sustaining national organizations that were built upon

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Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College

October 4, 2018October 8, 2018 Michael David Cohen black intellectual history, Jim Crow, race

In 1911, Richard Greener was introduced to an audience as “‘the first colored graduate of Harvard,’ ‘ex-Consul to Russia,’ and ‘the

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Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore

October 2, 2018October 3, 2018 Adam McNeil Activism, archives, Baltimore, freedom, race, racism

Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and

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Remembering James Cone: Kind and Fierce Iconoclast

September 6, 2018September 8, 2018 Lilian Calles Barger black politics, Black Power, freedom, James Cone Forum, liberation theology, Philosophy, religion

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. The late theologian James Cone

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Gerald Horne’s Insurgent African Diaspora

August 20, 2018August 27, 2018 Jessica Marie Johnson

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We begin with this essay by blogger Jessica

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