Search Results for: Frederick Douglass

What to the Black Academic is the 4th of July?

July 15, 2016July 14, 2016 Greg Childs Frederick Douglass, police brutality, police violence

July 4 is not normally a day that we associate with black history. The “we” here refers both to the

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Remembering Phillis Wheatley

June 26, 2016June 25, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Black women, Phillis Wheatley

In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,

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Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a Racist Idea

June 21, 2016June 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi trauma

For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,

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On Freedom and Radicalizing the Black Radical Tradition

June 18, 2016December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #FreedomAAIHS, marronage

Today, Neil Roberts concludes the roundtable on his book Freedom as Marronage. We began with an introduction by Jared Hardesty

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A Mountainous Freedom

June 17, 2016December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #FreedomAAIHS, C.L.R. James, Haitian Revolution, marronage

Today, we continue our roundtable on Neil Roberts‘s Freedom as Marronage with a contribution from Minkah Makalani, associate professor in

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