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Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

March 5, 2019March 9, 2019 Edward Dunsworth Activism, black politics, Politics, Resistance, South

As the primary setting for slavery, sharecropping, and racialized Southern rural poverty, agriculture has–for good reason–been principally portrayed as a

The Black Press and the Legacy of Liberator Magazine

February 14, 2019March 31, 2019 Lowell Beveridge #RadicalIntellect, Activism, archives, race, Radical Intellect, Resistance

This post is part of our online roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect As the Editor of Liberator for the first four and a half

Social Justice Work in North Carolina: An Interview with Activist Nhawndie Smith

January 30, 2019June 20, 2019 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt #BlackOrganizingToday, Activism, black feminism, black politics, black protest, black radical tradition, Resistance

This post is part of our Black Organizing Today Series. This series, edited by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, consists of interviews

Fugitive Slaves and the Quest for Freedom

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Jessica Parr fugitivity, law, Resistance, slavery

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved

Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality on the Frontier

January 11, 2019January 29, 2019 Jacob Jurss American West, landownership, Resistance

At the turn of the 20th century historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued, “[t]he frontier is the line of most rapid