Race in Contemporary America: An Interview with Historian Elwood Watson
In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Elwood Watson about his new book, Keepin’ It Real: Essays on Race in
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Politics
Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor
Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to
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Losing Willie McGee
The toll a failed political campaign takes on an individual can be devastating, none more so than when a life
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Confronting Reactionaries: Black Support for The Progressive Party During the Cold War
During the Cold War, progressive voices were being drowned out by the drumbeat of war, as military and political relations
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Eldridge Cleaver and the Afterlives of 1968
*Fifth and final instalment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential campaign* In the November 7, 1968
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