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The 1967 Rebellion and Visions of an Independent Black Detroit

July 17, 2017July 27, 2017 Austin McCoy black nationalism, Detroit

In all likelihood, the progressive slogan—“Another city is possible”—grew from the ashes of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. While many will

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Hubert Harrison: Black Griot of the Harlem Renaissance

July 8, 2017July 10, 2017 Brian Kwoba Garveyism, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Marcus Garvey, New York, Universal Negro Improvement Association

The historical restoration of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927) calls for a rethinking of the Black radical tradition in the early

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The Gift of Black Folk and the Emancipation of American History

June 19, 2017June 21, 2017 Westenley Alcenat black intellectual history, reconstruction, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts

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Black Radicalism, Repression, and the “Horne Biographical Method”

June 9, 2017June 12, 2017 Charisse Burden-Stelly #Horne, Communism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History Gerald Horne’s first biography on W.E.B.

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Gerald Horne’s Japan

June 8, 2017June 12, 2017 Yuichiro Onishi #Horne, Afro-Asia, Japan

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History The historian Gerald Horne is a

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