“Heed the Call!”: Black Women, Anti-imperialism, and Black Anti-War Activism
With the recent passing of Muhammad Ali, discussions about anti-Vietnam War activism has come to the fore. The heavyweight champion’s
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Black Intellectuals and White Audiences
This guest post was originally published on Public Books and is reprinted here with permission. The author, Matthew Clair, is
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Paul Robeson, Black Dockworkers, and Labor-Left Pan-Africanism
This is a guest post by Peter Cole, a historian of the twentieth-century United States, South Africa and comparative history.
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Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle: An Interview with Crystal R. Sanders
This month, I interviewed Crystal R. Sanders about her new book, A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black
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“Most needed blessings”: The “all lives matter” debate in 1837
Think the current controversy over “black lives matter” is new? African American activists wrestled with the question almost 200 years
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