1968: Soul Music and the Year of Black Power
James Brown’s iconic song “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud” was released in August 1968, seemingly a
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Top 10 of 2018 – #1 – Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0
*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This
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Top 10 of 2018 – #6 – There Is No NFL Without Black Labor
*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This essay–ranked number
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Reclaiming the Black Past: A New Book on the Use and Misuse of African American History
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Race and the Remaking of Trans History: An Author’s Response
*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. Part I A few weeks ago, on Sunday,
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