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History, Memory, and the Power of Black Radio

March 16, 2018March 19, 2018 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Chicago, slavery

Between 1948 and 1950, a radio series called Destination Freedom aired on WMAQ, a local Chicago NBC station. Richard Durham

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On the Limits of Boycotts as a Political Tool

March 14, 2018March 19, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, South Africa

Corporate boycotts made headlines for the second time since October in the wake of the recent high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

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Black Panther, Surveillance, and Racial Profiling

March 10, 2018March 15, 2018 Matthew Teutsch #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace, race, racism

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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Antebellum Law and the Southern Justice System

March 6, 2018March 11, 2018 Michael Landis #MasterlessMen, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. I must confess from the outset that I never had

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Benedita da Silva, Brazil’s First Black Woman Senator and Governor

March 1, 2018March 3, 2018 Jaimee A. Swift Afro-Brazilians, black politics, Black women, Brazil, intersectionality

Female politicians are underrepresented in their leadership and their participation, and their contributions and successes in national, local, and civil

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