Reclaiming Blackness and Islamic Identity
Several months ago, I was approached by a group of Muslim undergraduates from Stanford University’s Markaz Center, a secular student
View ArticleChokwe Lumumba and Black Nationalist Convergence
Eight months into his tenure as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba passed away on February 25, 2014. The sixty-six-year-old mayor
View ArticleGender, Civil Rights, and the Case of Odell Waller
Pauli Murray is a central figure of women’s activism. Her career spanned five decades and included work in the labor
View ArticlePolice Violence and the Debate Over Gun Control
In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, the National Rifle Association (NRA) entered the news as their successful lobbying of
View ArticleThe 1967 Detroit Uprising and the Failure of the Criminal Justice System
Standing before judge Robert Columbo, a Detroiter made a standard defendant’s request to be released on his own recognizance. He
View ArticleBlack Resistance to Segregation in the Nineteenth Century
In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its
View ArticleState Violence and Pregnant Black Mothers
For Black women, pregnancy presents a multiplying set of vulnerabilities which illuminate the intersectional frames of race, gender, and class
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Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as
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‘Birthright Citizens’: A New Book on the History of Race and Rights
*This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore
Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and
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Black Radicalism and the Trial of Claudia Jones
This is the second installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first installment here. Claudia Jones believed that
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Mentha Morrison: A Story of Debt Peonage in Jim Crow Georgia
Mentha Morrison wanted her husband back. The problem was not domestic, it was legal. Jackson Morrison owed the state of
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‘The Captive’s Quest for Freedom’: An Interview with Historian Richard Blackett
In today’s post, Rachel Zellars, contributor for Black Perspectives, interviews historian Richard Blackett, about his new book, The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive
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Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom
On August 3, 1952, Ruby McCollum walked into Dr. C. LeRoy Adams’s medical practice in Live Oak, Florida and shot
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Mapping Resistance to Surveillance
As pundits await the release of the full Mueller Report and speculate about its final contents, the FBI enjoys greater
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Surviving Slavery: Contests Over Bondage in Berbice
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean concentrates on the question of agency, whereby narratives of life on plantations in Berbice
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Veil and Vow: Aneeka Ayanna Henderson Discusses Marriage in Contemporary...
Aneeka Ayanna Henderson is the author of Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture (February 2020) published
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Losing Willie McGee
The toll a failed political campaign takes on an individual can be devastating, none more so than when a life
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Race After Technology
In February 2020, a Black woman tweeted about how Britain’s automated passport processing system deemed her photo unacceptable because her
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The World of Slavery, Kidnapping, and the Slave Trade
One of the enduring ironies of the institution of slavery is that it was wrapped up in the law. While
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