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San Francisco Communist Party marching in May Day parade, 1935.

California Communism and Its Afterlives

A new book explores the Communist Party's western base and its alliance with the labor movement.

by Matt Ray, Matthew Wranovics via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 27, 2024

A JDL ad from the New York Times.

False Prophet

Meir Kahane's legacy in Israel and America.

by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on May 10, 2024

Union members and civil rights activists in Georgia protest Shell's business with apartheid South Africa.

Galvanizing the American Public, ANC and Anti-Apartheid

How the ANC went from an organization whose role in the struggle was hotly debated, to being widely hailed as the heir to the international anti-apartheid movement.

by Jessica Ann Levy via Black Perspectives on April 24, 2024

The cover of "Beyond Norma Rae" by Aimee Loiselle

Who Makes the American Working Class: Women Workers and Culture

Female industrial workers across the country and from diverse racial backgrounds fought to tell their own stories.

by Brock Schnoke via UNC Press Blog on March 13, 2024

Bayard Rustin addressing a crowd in New York City in 1965. (Library of Congress/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

The Lasting Legacy of Bayard Rustin

Why does the influential African-American organizer and strategist continue to speak to us, three and a half decades after his death?

by Michael Weinman via New Lines on February 29, 2024

Percy Sutton, Flo Kennedy, and another Black reproduction activist.

How Black Leaders Formed the Reproductive Justice Movement

Before the end of Black History Month, we should remember some of the leaders who shaped the movement in the years before Roe v. Wade.

by Felicia Kornbluh via Ms. Magazine on February 6, 2024

Carl McIntire reading the Christian Manifesto outside Riverside Church in New York City and on the right, McIntire leaves Riverside Church, where the Christian Manifesto hangs above the doorway.

The U.S. Culture Wars Abroad: Liberal-Evangelical Rivalry and Decolonization in Southern Africa

As evangelicals worked to gain public legitimacy during the Cold War, historians of evangelicalism search for a usable past for their fellow believers.

by Gene Zubovich via Process: A Blog for American History on January 23, 2024

Nicki Minaj and the autobiography of Malcolm X written by Alex Haley.

It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop

We cannot understand the last fifty years of U.S. history—certainly not the first thing about Black history—without studying the emergence and evolution of rap.

by Austin McCoy via The Baffler on January 9, 2024

Bayard Rustin by a sign that reads "integration means better schools for all".

Bayard Rustin Was No Hollywood Figurehead

This new biopic about the socialist organizer Bayard Rustin stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out?

by Adolph Reed Jr. via The Nation on December 12, 2023

A group of black prisoners, shoveling.

Race, Prison, and the Thirteenth Amendment

Critiques of the Thirteenth Amendment have roots in a long history of activists who understood the imprisonment of Black people as a type of slavery.

by Daryl Michael Scott, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on September 21, 2023

Conservative College Campus Counterprotesters with signs saying "Peace Through Victory in Vietnam."

Modern Conservatism Was Born on College Campuses. So Why Does the GOP Hate Them?

Leaders of the political right learned lessons from the 1960s that still inform the movement today.

by Ian Ward, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd via Politico Magazine on September 4, 2023

August Wilson

The Man Who Transformed American Theater

How August Wilson became one of the country’s most influential playwrights.

by Imani Perry via The Atlantic on August 15, 2023

Aftermath of a riot in Washington, D.C., following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral in 1968. Photography by Warren K. Leffler, via the Library of Congress.

After the Murder

Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was the fateful moment that the wave of hope finally broke for Black America.

by Donovan X. Ramsey via Guernica on July 6, 2023

Marijuana leaves superimposed over photo of two men.

The Dank Underground

In the late Sixties, countercultural media was distributed by the Underground Press Syndicate and bankrolled by marijuana.

by J. Hoberman via New York Review of Books on May 26, 2023

Jonathan Big next to cover of "King: A Life."

Restoring the Real, Radical Martin Luther King Jr. in “King: A Life”

A new biography of King emerges at a "critical juncture" for his legacy.

by Jonathan Eig, Steve Nathans-Kelly via Chicago Review of Books on May 23, 2023

Anti-Apartheid Rally, June 14, 1986, New York City.

Coke Money and Apartheid Divestment in U.S. Higher Education

US corporations, with universities as one of their stages, masqueraded as agents of Black solidarity while undermining the demands of African liberation movements.

by Amanda Joyce Hall via Black Perspectives on May 10, 2023

Martin Luther King Jr. with other activists and children.

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Perilous Power of Respectability

We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.

by Kelefa Sanneh via The New Yorker on May 8, 2023

Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley delivering the welcoming address to delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, on Aug. 26, 1968. BETTMANN ARCHIVE, VIA GETTY IMAGES

How Chicago Got Its Gun Laws

It’s nearly impossible to separate modern-day gun laws from race.

by Lakeidra Chavis via The Marshall Project on March 24, 2023

Bobby Seal and Huey Newton standig in front of a Black Panther Party sign

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

The role of family in Huey P. Newton's educational journey.

by Mark Whitaker via Literary Hub on February 13, 2023

Photograph of an African American family buying ice cream at a segregated ice cream shop

Gordon Parks' View of America Across Three Decades

Two new books and one expanded edition of Gordon Parks' photographs look at the work of the photographer from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

by Robert E. Gerhardt via Blind on October 28, 2022

photo of C. Vann Woodward, c/o William R. Ferris, Van Every Smith Galleries

What Is There To Celebrate?

A review of "C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian."

by Eric Foner via London Review of Books on October 20, 2022

Charles Sherrod consulting advisors on courtroom strategy

A Vital Civil Rights Activist You Never Heard of Has Died

Charles Sherrod wasn’t a big name, but his life has a lot to tell us about the civil rights movement.

by Ansley L. Quiros via Made By History on October 13, 2022

"Until I Am Free"

An online roundtable on a new biography of Fannie Lou Hamer.

by Danielle L. McGuire, Peniel E. Joseph, Rhonda Williams, Stefan M. Bradley via Black Perspectives on October 3, 2022

Mural of Black Panthers with raised fists.

Earl Anthony and the Black Panther Party

“I came to the realization that taking to the streets to fight social revolution in this country is like ‘spitting in the wind; it will fly back into your face.”

by M. Keith Claybrook Jr. via Black Perspectives on August 11, 2022

Illustration of Nation of Islam members holding hands with Muslims from the Middle East over globe.

The Nation of Islam's Role in U.S. Prisons

The Nation of Islam is controversial. Its practical purposes for incarcerated people transcend both politics and religion.

by Olivia Heffernan via JSTOR Daily on March 22, 2022

From center: Saundra Williams, the first crowned Miss Black America (1969). At left, 2nd runner-up Linda Johnson; on the right is Theresa Claytor, who was the first runner-up.

The History of Beauty Pageants Reveals the Limits of Black Representation

Black contestants — and winners — have not translated into changed beauty standards or structural transformation.

by Mickell Carter via Made By History on February 16, 2022

The Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for Children Program in action, New York, 1969. Photo by Bev Grant/Getty Images

The Black Panthers Fed More Hungry Kids Than the State of California

It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California.

by Suzanne Cope via Aeon on December 10, 2021

Black and white photo of Howard Fuller outside Malcolm X Liberation University

The Lost Promise of Black Study

Even as they carve out space for Black scholarship, established universities remain deeply complicit in racial capitalism. We must think beyond them.

by Andrew J. Douglas, Jared A. Loggins via Boston Review on September 24, 2021

Tommie Smith on podium receives gold medal with fist raised, holding shoe.

Rule 50 and Racial Justice

The long history of the international olympic committee's war on athletes' free expression.

by Debbie Sharnak, Yannick Kluch via HNN on August 22, 2021

Black mother holding baby

The Persistent Joy of Black Mothers

Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women reject those narratives through world-making of their own.

by Leah Wright Rigueur via The Atlantic on August 11, 2021

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