In 1966, the assertion of Black power was grounded in an appeal to the founding principles of the United States. Black church leaders called for healing internal divisions through engagement.
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The raised fist - used by Donald Trump as he was rushed off a stage after an assassination attempt - has been used by fascists, communists, Black Power advocates and even golfer Tiger Woods.
An expert on the Columbia University protests of 1968 draws parallels between protests then and the ones taking place there in 2024.
Washington isn’t a state that typically comes to mind in discussions about student-led protests from the Civil Rights Movement. A Black history professor seeks to change that with a new book.
As institutions continue to push diversity and cluster hires, they can reinforce the negativity of tokenism.
A scholar compares the debates over banning books in school today to a similar clash of ideas that took place during the Reagan era.
Jazz star Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse has turned 70. In 50 years, his music career has come to help define South African politics and popular culture.
Howard Fuller’s support for school choice is connected to the Black Power movement and a pursuit to provide Black students a quality education by any means necessary.
Like many social movements before it that began at the grassroots, Black Lives Matter is becoming a more conventional organization with top-down leadership.
The QAnon conspiracy movement is the latest in a long line of moral panics that emerge as a response to change. False theories are used to undermine claims to social justice raised by marginalized groups.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, traces its lineage to students who learned from a ‘second curriculum’ at historically black colleges and universities, a historian recounts.
A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that black names are a recent phenomenon.
What is interesting about the true story is what Lee doesn’t have the time, or perhaps the inclination, to show.
BlacKkKlansman is more than a good story: it expertly weaves together comedy with serious drama to bring the story of past racism to illuminate our present day issues.
The way Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is being remembered recalls the outpouring of grief and iconic status Eva Peron the First Lady of Argentina was accorded.
Before the civil rights era, a group of powerful and resourceful black women laid the groundwork for a generation of black activists.
For the African-American community, Kwanzaa is not just any “Black holiday. ” It is a recognition that knowledge of Black history is worthwhile.
The protest song “Malcolm’s gone” not only pays tribute to one of the most influential black leaders, but provocatively likens him, as a Muslim and so-called enemy of the state, to Jesus Christ.
Almost 50 years ago, a white, non-American athlete supported Black athletes protesting racial injustice. Peter Norman paid a price for taking a stand. Canada’s Sidney Crosby is no Peter Norman.
Tupac’s sensitivity, intelligence and creativity confronted the hostile forces that antagonized black youth across the country in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Professor, Departments of English Langauge and Literature & Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of History and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Popular Music, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor of African History, Temple University
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Lecturer of English. PhD Candidate in Afrofuturism and African Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Dean of Students, Vanderbilt University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Economics, The Ohio State University
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Professor of History, North Carolina A&T State University
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Professor of Black Studies and History, Amherst College
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Presidential Fellow at Northwestern University, Northwestern University
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Professor in Africana & Latin American Studies, Colgate University
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
