Search Results for: Frederick Douglass

Black Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount

January 17, 2019January 29, 2019 Chris Shell black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, Interracial relationships

In today’s post, Christopher Shell, a PhD student at Michigan State University, interviews historian Guy Emerson Mount about his chapter in New Perspectives on Black

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The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

January 15, 2019January 29, 2019 Mike Jirik black radical tradition, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, student activism

On the night of August 20, 2018, student protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toppled a

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Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality on the Frontier

January 11, 2019January 29, 2019 Jacob Jurss American West, landownership, Resistance

At the turn of the 20th century historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued, “[t]he frontier is the line of most rapid

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Revolution and Repression: A Framework for African American History

August 21, 2018August 27, 2018 Brandon Byrd

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

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Black Athletes, Anthem Protests, and the Spectacle of Patriotism

June 7, 2018June 16, 2018 Amira Rose Davis Activism, black protest, blackness, Politics, racism, sports, white supremacy

The new NFL anthem policy requires players to stand during the national anthem or face a fine. This decision is

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