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The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics

September 18, 2018September 19, 2018 Daniel Matlin Black Arts Movement, black feminism, Black Power, black protest, race

In Percival Everett’s satirical novel Erasure (2001), a struggling author in need of money to pay for his elderly mother’s

Black Public History in Chicago

July 30, 2018August 8, 2018 Betsy Schlabach Activism, archives, Black Arts Movement, black politics, Black Power, Chicago, civil rights, museums, Public History

As part of the research for his book Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From World War II

The Women at the Heart of Black Power

April 25, 2018April 30, 2018 Joshua Clark Davis #RemakingBlackPower, Angela Davis, Black Arts Movement, black politics, Black women, black women scholars

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Ashley D. Farmer’s Remaking Black Power: How Black

Remembering the Black Radical Press

January 25, 2018January 30, 2018 Christopher Tinson Black Arts Movement, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black press, Black radicalism, Third World Women’s Alliance

Print culture, including journals, magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, posters, and books, was instrumental in advancing the politics, aesthetics, and criticism of

Radical Intellect: A New Book on Liberator Magazine

November 22, 2017November 25, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black, Black Arts Movement, Black Power

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History