Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology
This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late
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Malcolm X’s Gospel
In April 1957, Malcolm X began writing his “God’s Angry Men” column in the New York Amsterdam News, immediately after the brutal police
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The Legacy of the Gary Convention
The long shadow of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, continues to overwhelm Black political and intellectual
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‘Nationtime’ Shows That Blacks, Too, Have Become More Inclusive
When William Greaves’ film about the 1972 National Black Political Convention, which took place in my hometown of Gary, Indiana,
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Northern Black People’s Freedom Struggle in the Nineteenth Century
During the mid-nineteenth-century, Black people collectively fought for racial equality and social justice within the U.S. The scholarship of historians,
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