Black Art and Social Justice: An Interview with Elizabeth Burden
In May 1967, Black Panther newspaper began incorporating “revolutionary art,” including drawings, political cartoons, and mixed-media images to “enlighten” and “educate”
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Resistance
W.E.B. Du Bois, Gender, and Black History
In Axel’s Castle, critic Edmund Wilson wrote of Gertrude Stein’s enigmatic novel of nearly a thousand pages, The Making of Americans,
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Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero: An Interview with Mitch Kachun
In today’s post, historian Stephen G. Hall, Fellow at the National Humanities Center, interviews Mitch Kachun on his new book First Martyr of
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Chocolate Cities: A New Book on the Black Map of American Life
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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“Left Exposed to View!”: Black Women and Sexualized Violence
In May 1962, Malcolm X delivered a commanding speech with his now infamous lines regarding the positionality of Black women:
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