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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 Power Meets Pan-Africanism in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

November 13, 2017November 15, 2017 Peter Cole black internationalism, black nationalism, black radical tradition, Pan-Africanism

Historian Seth Markle has written the latest must-have book on Black Power politics. His book is “required reading” because he

Black Identity Extremists: COINTELPRO 2017

November 13, 2017November 15, 2017 Robyn C. Spencer black nationalism, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, police brutality, white supremacy

On October 6, 2017 an FBI internal report identifying “Black Identity Extremists” (BIE) as a major threat to Law Enforcement

Black October: An Introduction

October 30, 2017November 2, 2017 Jennifer Wilson and Jennifer Suchland Black October, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Russia, Russian Revolution, Soviet Union

*This is the introduction to our online forum on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora 2017 is not a year lacking in

The Still Rejected Strain; or How Black Thought is Enough

October 25, 2017October 27, 2017 Josh Myers black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*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