A Sampling of Black Perspectives Posts: July to December 2021
Black Perspectives continued its tradition of tying Black intellectual history to a wide range of fields throughout the second half
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Black Power
Floyd McKissick’s Soul City: An Interview with Thomas Healy
In 1969, Black Power advocate Floyd McKissick announced plans to develop Soul City, a multiracial community in rural Warren County,
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On the Making and Timely Re-Release of Reluctant Reformers
In 1974, Howard University Press published a powerful book documenting how racist ideas and practices incapacitated the US’s most historically
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Policing Black Freedom
*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study
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Myles Horton, Highlander, and the Beloved Community
On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,
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