Walter Rodney

Between Radicalism and Repression: Walter Rodney’s Revolutionary Praxis

May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, Black political thought, Black radicalism, colonialism, Neoimperialism, repression, Walter Rodney

On June 13, 1980, the Black Marxist, Pan-Africanist, historian, and scholar-activist Walter Rodney was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana.1 That year, students

Getting the Word Out: The Circulation of Black Power Newspapers

December 30, 2015December 30, 2015 Paul Hébert Abeng, Canada, Caribbean, Jamaica, Montreal, Walter Rodney

Back in October, I wrote about Abeng, the short-lived Jamaican radical newspaper which, in the late 1960s, played a central

Work that Must Be Done: Rethinking the Longer Legacy of Garveyism (Paul Hébert)

November 25, 2015November 25, 2015 Paul Hébert #AAIHSRoundtable, #AgeofGarvey, Abeng, Black Power, Garveyism, Walter Rodney

This is the third day of our roundtable on Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist

Abeng and Black Power in the West Indies

October 27, 2015January 28, 2017 Paul Hébert black intellectual history, C.L.R. James, Caribbean, Walter Rodney

My interest in Black Power and post-war Black radicalism more generally grew not out of an initial interest in African-American