Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it
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Book Review
Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World
George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of
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Harlem as Setting and Symbol
Examining Harlem’s long career as “setting and symbol” of African American and Diasporic life and culture, Race Capital?: Harlem as Setting
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Overseer Violence on Eighteenth Century Plantations
For scholars of eighteenth-century North American slavery, the rise of the plantation-complex grounds many of the field’s central questions. When
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On Richard Wright’s Hunger and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy
Richard Wright’s famous autobiography, Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (1945) was originally titled American Hunger. However, the
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