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Black Radicalism and the Trial of Claudia Jones

October 4, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Claudia Jones, Communist Party, criminal justice system

This is the second installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first installment here. Claudia Jones believed that

Gloria Richardson and the Struggle for Black Liberation

September 21, 2018September 25, 2018 Joseph R. Fitzgerald Activism, Black Power, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, race, Resistance

This is an excerpt from Joseph R. Fitzgerald’s The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation, scheduled to be published

‘BlacKkKlansman’ and William Shockley’s Eugenic Agenda

September 18, 2018September 19, 2018 Alexandra Fair Black film, Black women, film, Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy

Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman‘ is a gladiatorial depiction of racism as a past returned into the present. In one of many

The Persistence of Institutional Sexism in Africana Studies

September 17, 2018September 19, 2018 Carole Boyce Davies Black women, education

While institutional racism under the current U.S. administration is identified as being more prominent and therefore more recognizable, institutional sexism, its

‘Jezebel Unhinged’: A New Book on the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture

September 17, 2018September 18, 2018 J. T. Roane black feminism, Black women, Gender, religion

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