Russell Rickford

Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’ and the Pitfalls of African Consciousness

African American imaginings of Africa often intermingle with–and help illuminate–intimate hopes and desires for Black life in the United States.

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

The specter of Palestine haunted my spring semester Black Radical Tradition course at Cornell University. Midway through the term, the

*This is a transcript of a speech prepared by historian Russell Rickford for a protest against Former Vice President Dick

This month I interviewed the scholar-activist Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald McWorter) about his new website and his life of scholarship