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Lorraine Hansberry and the Praxis of Freedom

This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision How does one sharpen our focus on

There’s a good reason why I’ve focused on the work of Chicago-based Black photojournalist John H. White during the first

James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from

Fifteen years ago, I decided to write a biography of a Black woman. My scholarly genealogy pushed me toward such

This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late