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Against Multiracial Authoritarianism

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 Dan Berger black politics, black protest, civil rights, nation, Politics, race, white supremacy

Concluding her stunning essay on the racist and sexist representations of Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas as he alighted

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Local Politics and Black Freedom After the Civil War

July 10, 2019June 30, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, black politics, economic justice, landownership, Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance, South, voting

On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an account with the Savannah, Georgia branch of the Freedmen’s Bank. Three

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Pushing Beyond the Two-Party System: Dick Gregory’s 1968 Presidential Campaign

July 8, 2019July 1, 2019 E. James West Activism, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, presidents, race, Resistance

In a March 2011 profile of African American comedian Dick Gregory written for GQ magazine, journalist Robert Chalmers mused, “it’s

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Towards an Antifascist Pedagogy

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 Guy Emerson Mount antifascism, pedagogy, racism, Resistance, South

On February 19th, 2019 an interracial group of socialists gathered at a local coffee shop in rural Alabama. The coffee

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Beyond the ‘Great Men’ Canon of Black Intellectual History

June 11, 2019June 9, 2019 La TaSha Levy #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, Black women, education, Politics, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ African American intellectual history is

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