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‘The Drum Major Instinct’: A New Book about Martin Luther King, Jr.

March 25, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane Activism, black intellectual history, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Remembering John O’Neal and the Free Southern Theater

March 25, 2019August 12, 2022 Erik Wallenberg Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Resistance, theater

John O’Neal, the co-founder of the Free Southern Theater (FST)–one of the cultural arms of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)–has

The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The

Black Radicalism and Shirley Graham Du Bois’s Curatorial Imagination

March 15, 2019August 12, 2022 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black radicalism, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

Rewriting Shirley Graham Du Bois

March 14, 2019August 12, 2022 Gerald Horne #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The