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The Possibilities of Black Power History in Newark

April 1, 2019August 12, 2022 Peter Blackmer #NationWithinANation, black nationalism, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

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Remembering John O’Neal and the Free Southern Theater

March 25, 2019August 12, 2022 Erik Wallenberg Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Resistance, theater

John O’Neal, the co-founder of the Free Southern Theater (FST)–one of the cultural arms of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)–has

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The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The

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Shirley Graham Du Bois’s Biographical Writings

March 11, 2019August 12, 2022 Bettina Aptheker #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

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Black Fans, Protest, and Power

March 8, 2019August 12, 2022 Louis Moore black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, race, racism

Playing the role of the heel, white wrestler Rod Rivera looked up at the segregated balcony in New Orleans’s Municipal

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