Black Funeral Directors and the Black Lives Matter Movement
Today’s guest post comes from Edwin Jackson, a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Maryland and Oklahoma. Born and raised in
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Pivoting Between Black Power and Women’s Liberation
Review: Sherie M. Randolph, Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015)
Read moreAbolition in the New Year
Far more people probably know the importance of January 1, 1863 than they do the significance of January 1, 1808.
Read moreThe Early Scholarship of John Hope Franklin
The famed European historian, A.J.P. Taylor, remarked that “nothing is inevitable until it happens.” John Hope Franklin, who throughout a
Read moreGetting the Word Out: The Circulation of Black Power Newspapers
Back in October, I wrote about Abeng, the short-lived Jamaican radical newspaper which, in the late 1960s, played a central
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