‘Upending the Ivory Tower’: A New Book on the Black Student Movement
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics
In Percival Everett’s satirical novel Erasure (2001), a struggling author in need of money to pay for his elderly mother’s
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50 Years Since Detroit’s Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
On July 8, 1968, a group of Black autoworkers led a wildcat strike that partially shut down Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge
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Black Bookstores and the Black Power Movement: An Interview with Paul Coates
In this post, blogger Joshua Clark Davis interviews activist Paul Coates–the father of author Ta-Nehisi Coates–on his life and early
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Progressive Movements and the Importance of Failure
Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times could not have arrived
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