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Black Women and Economic Justice in St. Louis: An Interview with Keona Ervin

December 2, 2017December 6, 2017 Candace Borders Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, Resistance

In today’s post, Candace Borders, a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, interviews Keona K. Ervin on her

Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of

Storytelling and Racial Healing

September 18, 2017September 21, 2017 Celeste Henery black internationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Frederick Douglass, racism

I recently returned from a storytelling school in a small coastal town on the North Channel of Northern Ireland. I

Echoes of the 1960s: SNCC and White Liberal Participation in Anti-Racist Movements

September 12, 2017September 14, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Civil Rights Movement

This first summer under the Trump regime resembles the long red-hot summers of the past. It has been filled with

Gwen Patton speaking at the University of Cuba in Havana. Photo: Trenholm State Community College Libraries.

Remembering Gwen Patton, Activist and Theorist

June 14, 2017June 17, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black Power, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

“Ideas are powerful,” Dr. Gwendolyn Patton used to say when she talked to the younger generation about civil rights and political