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The Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement

January 29, 2019March 31, 2019 Say Burgin black press, book review, masculinity, race

Upon leaving the Nation of Islam (NOI) in March of 1964, Malcolm X spoke publicly about what he called Elijah

‘Radical Intellect’: An Interview with Historian Christopher M. Tinson

October 29, 2018November 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black press, primary source

In today’s post, blogger Rebecca Brenner interviews Christopher M. Tinson about his new book, Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s. Tinson

The United States and Colonial Zimbabwe: Pan-African Linkages

May 14, 2018May 23, 2018 Brooks Marmon africa, Anticolonialism, black press, Pan-Africanism, Zimbabwe

In 1965, the racially-driven political crisis in the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) entered a dramatic new

Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A New Book on A North Carolina Journalist and Activist

April 21, 2018April 24, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black press, Jim Crow, journalism, South

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

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