Search Results for: civil rights movement

The Best Black History Books of 2020

December 21, 2020March 29, 2021 AAIHS Editors

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2020 on Black History, and they

Read more

Haiti and Black Internationalism in the Twenty-First Century

December 9, 2020January 11, 2021 Shaun Armstead #TheBlackRepublic, black internationalism, Black political thought, Haiti

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. African Americans’ tenuous relationship to American

Read more

Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism, civil rights, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

As the recent election has shown, anti-communism is alive and well in the United States. Donald Trump and other conservatives

Read more

Demonizing Diversity Training Isn’t New

November 25, 2020November 22, 2020 Say Burgin Black Power, military, race, racism, white supremacy

In September, President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning “diversity training” in federal agencies. He justified it by saying

Read more

Redefining the Boundaries of the Nation of Islam’s Political Participation

November 18, 2020November 15, 2020 Alaina Morgan #ThoseWhoKnow, carceral state, mass incarceration, Nation of Islam, prisons

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.

Read more