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Reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr.’s Radical Vision

February 1, 2018February 4, 2018 Richard D. Benson II Activism, black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Pan-Africanism

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address, “Keep Moving from This Mountain,” at Spelman College’s annual Founders Day commemoration

Black British History and the Politics of Belonging

December 19, 2017December 23, 2017 Nicole Jackson black intellectual history, black internationalism

One of my favorite pieces of Caribbean/Black British literature is Merle Collins’ poem, “When Britain Had Its GREAT.” In the short

The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks

November 20, 2017November 24, 2017 Grace D. Gipson black intellectual history, Black women

With this past June marking the 100th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s birth, it is important that we reflect on the life and

The Enduring Crisis of Black Intellectuals In America

October 27, 2017October 30, 2017 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Harold Cruse

*This is the concluding essay of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro

James Baldwin and The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

October 24, 2017October 25, 2017 Holly Genovese black intellectual history, Harold Cruse, James Baldwin

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to