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Malcolm X arrives in New York City in 1964 after a tour of the Middle East.

Malcolm X and the Difficulties of Diplomacy

In 1964, he toured Africa and the Middle East on a journey that would both transform his outlook and reveal the limits of transnational solidarity.
by Alex White via New Lines on July 19, 2024
Newspaper article titled "Black Men Versus the Drug Problem."

Heroin And Chocolate City: Black Community Responses To Drug Addiction In The Nation’s Capital

As early at 1955, government reports indicated that DC’s emerging drug problem represented “a serious and tragic and expensive and ominous” development.
by Ryan Reft via The Metropole on January 24, 2024
Street art graffiti on the Israeli separation West Bank wall in Bethlehem features a portrait of George Floyd, symbolizing the links between Black American and Palestinian activists.

The Long, Complicated History of Black Solidarity With Palestinians and Jews

How Black support for Zionism morphed into support for Palestine.
by Sam Klug, Fabiola Cineas via Vox on October 17, 2023
Muhammad A. Aziz leaving a courtroom after being officially exonerated
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Exonerating Two Men Convicted of Malcolm X’s Killing Doesn’t Vindicate the System

Can a system built on racial violence actually deliver justice?
by Garrett Felber via Made By History on November 20, 2021
Muhammad Ali

The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics

It’s never just about religion, says the author of a book about celebrities discovering new religious identities.
by Rebecca L. Davis, Eric C. Miller via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 19, 2021
Worshipers at a Pentecostal church, Chicago, 1941

A Praise House of Many Mansions

In a book and documentary series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a wide-ranging tour of Black religion in America.
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar via New York Review of Books on April 29, 2021
Three panels of a graphic depicting Soul city. Images include two people walking in a street, people playing golf, and the inside of a mall

The Plan to Build a Capital for Black Capitalism

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?
by Kelefa Sanneh via The New Yorker on February 1, 2021

“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," featured in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," embodied many sentiments of a black generation.
by Mark Anthony Neal via Black Perspectives on June 24, 2019

Muslims Arrived in America 400 Years Ago and Today are Vastly Diverse

Islamophobes today ignore the long history and contributions of Muslim Americans.
by Saeed Ahmed Khan via The Conversation on April 11, 2019

How Malcolm X Became a Serious Threat to the U.S. After His Africa Visit

The influential activist was a strong proponent of Pan-Africanism.
by Ismail Akwei via Face2Face Africa on June 4, 2018
Cartoon panel of a man with a typewriter and a Department of Justice logo on the wall

They’ve Always Been Watching Us

From COINTELPRO to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.
by Andy Warner, Jess Parker via The Nib on July 10, 2017
The inmates during a negotiating session on September 10, 1971. An uprising born of panic and confusion triggered a cascade of paranoia that extended to the Nixon White House.

Learning from the Slaughter in Attica

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on August 22, 2016

The Black Power Movement

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Lakisha Odlum via Digital Public Library of America on October 14, 2015
A painting by J. M. W. Turner depicting a slave ship throwing its dead into the stormy waters.

The Slave Trade and the Jews

Jews have long been feared as the power behind inexplicable evils. Responsibility for the African slave trade has recently been added to this list of crimes.
by David Brion Davis via New York Review of Books on December 22, 1994

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