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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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Online Forum: The 20th Anniversary of Komozi Woodard’s ‘A Nation Within A Nation’

March 18, 2019March 31, 2019 AAIHS Editors #NationWithinANation

April 1-5, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum celebrating the 20-year

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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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Liberator Magazine and Black Activism: An Author’s Response

February 15, 2019March 31, 2019 Christopher Tinson #RadicalIntellect, Black Power, black press, black radical tradition, Black radicalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect Let me start by first thanking Pete Beveridge, Cynthia A. Young, Hasan

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Black Radicalism in the Tumultuous 1960s

February 12, 2019March 31, 2019 Hasan Kwame Jeffries #RadicalIntellect, Activism, black internationalism, black politics, black press, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Radical Intellect

This post is part of our online roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect In Radical Intellect, Christopher M. Tinson writes “a political and cultural history”

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