The Black Intellectual Traditions That Shaped Frederick Douglass
The United States recently marked 250 years since the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For this occasion, a
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Tom Burrell and Capitalist Activism in Advertising
I first became aware of Dr. Jason Chambers, professor of advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, through his
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Celebrating Black Intellectual History–Then and Now
In “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” a video created for her high school history class that later went viral, Amandla
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Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism
An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the transformative power
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Maulana Karenga, Operational Unity, and the Black Power Movement
Maulana Karenga, founder and chair of the Organization Us (Us), developed the concept of operational unity during the Black Power Movement. Several
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