Chernoh Sesay Jr.

Memory, Experience, and Imagination in Black Religion

September 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black internationalism, black nationalism, Garveyism, Great Migration, Immigration, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial

Soldiers at the siege of Yorktown, including an African American soldier of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine DeVerger, 1781. (Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University).

Historicizing Freedom and Black Abolitionism

April 12, 2017April 15, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, emancipation, slavery

More than a year ago, I wrote about the idea of hope relative to northern black activism during the American

"Fierce encounter with bloodhounds." New York Public Library Digital Collections.

David Walker and the Problem of American Consensus

February 7, 2017April 8, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, civil rights, emancipation, racism, slavery

There are many different ways to teach the historical development of African American political history. One way is in the

The American Revolution, Race, and the Failed Beginning of a Nation

December 7, 2016December 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Donald Trump, emancipation, law, racism, slavery

Although forms of systemic racism had certainly not gone away prior to Donald Trump’s election, that so many Americans voted

Implicit Bias and American History

November 7, 2016November 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Historiography

In the first presidential debate, Lester Holt asked Hilary Clinton to expand on prior comments regarding police violence: “Do you

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