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The Black Intellectual Tradition and Hip Hop

Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between

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

The history of African American engagement with Classical history, literature, and philosophy has been fraught with controversy and complexity. Much

It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August

The 1830s was the high-tide of Jacksonianism, an era many historians consider the nadir of early American history. Although universal