Remembering John O’Neal and the Free Southern 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
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Dockworker Power: A New Book on Labor Activism in South Africa and the United States
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 National Character of Black Oppression
For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, a small cadre of activist intellectuals sought to understand African American exploitation
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Cardi B. and Black Women’s Political Discourse
In January 2019, rapper Belcalis Almánzar, popularly known as Cardi B., took to social media to condemn President Trump for
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Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
As the primary setting for slavery, sharecropping, and racialized Southern rural poverty, agriculture has–for good reason–been principally portrayed as a
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