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White World Order, Black Power Politics: An Interview with Robert Vitalis

March 3, 2016March 4, 2016 Paul Hébert black internationalism, W.E.B. Du Bois

This month, I had the wonderful privilege of interviewing Professor Robert Vitalis on his recent book, White World Order, Black

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Reconsidering Malcolm X and Islam

February 8, 2016February 9, 2016 Guest Poster Malcolm X, Nation of Islam

This is a guest post by Garrett Felber, a scholar of 20th century African American history at the University of Michigan

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Envisioning Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Twenty-First Century

February 6, 2016February 1, 2016 Guest Poster black politics, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., Politics

This is a guest post by Dr. Elwood Watson, an author, public speaker, and professor of History, African American Studies,

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Should Barack Obama Endorse Bernie Sanders? The Left Turn and the Legacy

February 1, 2016February 1, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, black politics, Donald Trump, Ta-Nehisi Coates

President Obama would never endorse Bernie Sanders on the eve of the Democratic primary. But he definitely should.  And, in

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Birmingham in Five Acts

January 14, 2016January 14, 2016 Brandon Byrd Civil Rights Movement, convict leasing, mass incarceration, South

Beginnings John T. Milner had big goals for a new railroad connecting north and south Alabama. The man just named

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