Search Results for: black studies

“Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson Fifteenth Amendment, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of

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Implicit Bias and American History

November 7, 2016November 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Historiography

In the first presidential debate, Lester Holt asked Hilary Clinton to expand on prior comments regarding police violence: “Do you

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Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: An Interview with Gina Athena Ulysse

November 6, 2016January 2, 2017 Grace Sanders Johnson black feminism, black intellectual history, black lives matter, black protest, Haiti, Pan-Africanism

On October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew roared through Haiti’s southwest peninsula taking with it homes, centuries-old structures, and over 800

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Decolonizing the Republic: A New Book on African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris

November 3, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi France, Immigration, Migration, Paris

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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Standing Rock, Flint, and the Color of Water

November 2, 2016November 1, 2016 Christopher F. Petrella democracy

Co-authored with Ameer Loggins While much attention has rightly been paid to those who are courageously protecting water resources and

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