O.J. Simpson, Ex-Colored Man
What would it mean to live beyond the color line? To live unencumbered by race; by blackness? Black novelists have
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Intellectual Identity
On Freedom and Radicalizing the Black Radical Tradition
Today, Neil Roberts concludes the roundtable on his book Freedom as Marronage. We began with an introduction by Jared Hardesty
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Mae Mallory: Forgotten Black Power Intellectual
On October 2, 1962 journalists at the Chicago Defender interviewed Mae Mallory, a prisoner at the Cuyahoga County Jail in
Read moreWhen Scholars Cry: Celebrating the Career of Thomas C. Holt
If you’ve never seen a historian cry, you’re probably hanging out with the wrong historians. The day you see multiple
Read moreSummer Reading With W. E. B. Du Bois
As part of my ongoing research on the life, thought, and history of W. E. B. Du Bois, this month
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