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Flyboy Meets Guerrilla Scholar

December 16, 2021December 15, 2021 Herb Boyd africa, Greg Tate, music, Robert Farris Thompson, Scholar

Mulling over how to deal with the passing of Robert Farris Thompson, the famed “guerilla scholar,” as he termed himself—he

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Black Radicalism and the Right to Bail

December 6, 2021December 5, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky black radical tradition, race, W.E.B. Du Bois

New York’s LaGuardia Airport was abuzz. On December 9, 1951, two of the most well-known African American activists of the

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Expanding the Digital Black Atlantic

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Roopika Risam #BlackAtlantics, African Diaspora, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The essays published in the Digital Black Atlantics forum this

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Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac

October 28, 2021October 26, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky Alphaeus Hunton, Anti-Communism, Black Veterans, Communism, Hugh Mulzac, Labor Movement, Marian Anderson, McCarthyism, Socialism, WWII

  It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate

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Charles W. Mills: In Memoriam

September 29, 2021September 28, 2021 Robert Greene II Activism, black politics, race, teaching

UNIA Parade, Organized in Harlem, 1920 (New York Public Library) It is difficult to imagine recent Black intellectual history without

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