James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual
James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from
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biography
Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives
In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A New Book on The Life of a Radical Scholar
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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‘The Struggle is Eternal’: An Interview with Joseph R. Fitzgerald
In today’s post, Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of
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