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Brandon M. Terry

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What Dignity Demands

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.

by Brandon M. Terry via New York Review of Books on March 11, 2021
Malcolm’s Ministry

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

by Brandon M. Terry via New York Review of Books on February 4, 2021
MLK Now

The canonical image of Martin Luther King Jr. neglects many of his most important intellectual, ethical, and political critiques.

by Brandon M. Terry via Boston Review on January 9, 2018

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MLK giving his Vietnam speech

“Somehow This Madness Must Cease.”

Revisiting MLK Jr.’s sermon against the Vietnam War.

by Christopher Lydon via Literary Hub on April 8, 2022

MLK: What We Lost

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 18, 2018

Children learning about Thanksgiving, with model log cabin on table, Whittier Primary School, Hampton, Virginia circa 1900.

Fugitive Pedagogy

Jarvis Givens rediscovers the underground history of black schooling.

by Lydialyle Gibson via Harvard Magazine on February 11, 2022

A mostly African American audience listens to a speaker at the 5th Pan-African Conference, 1945

The New Black Internationalism

The Movement for Black Lives has developed an incipient internationalist language and vision, with the potential to remap America’s place in the world.

by Adom Getachew via Dissent on October 9, 2021

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Meaning of Emancipation

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.

by Asad Haider via n+1 on January 18, 2019

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