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Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning
Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.
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How the Nation of Islam Pioneered Prison Protest
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.
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Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War
As the recent election has shown, anti-communism is alive and well in the United States. Donald Trump and other conservatives
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Prison Policy from the Bottom Up
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. We Are Not Slaves:
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Prisoners’ Rights, Resistance, and the Law
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Robert Chase’s compelling book, We
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A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the
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The Interior Lives of Black Youth
In Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Paula C. Austin, Assistant Professor of History
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Law Enforcement’s Double Standards for Black Radical Activists
Many Americans were appalled to watch the Donald Trump inspired coup attempt against Congress. That Trump instigated his followers and
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Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,
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Black Soldiers and the Civil War
Shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation enabled African American men to enlist in the Union army in 1863, Alexander Thomas Augusta
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The Historical Roots of Abolition in the Twenty-First Century
In June 2020 Mariame Kaba penned an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled, “Yes We Literally Mean Abolish
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The Problem of White-Washing Juneteenth
Juneteenth’s increasing popularity places long-time celebrants in an unenviable position where euphoria regarding Jubilee’s popularity is tempered by the threat
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Myles Horton, Highlander, and the Beloved Community
On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,
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Allegiance, Birthright, and Race in America
“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study
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The Black Roots of “Rights and Privileges”
“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the
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State v. Mann: Lydia’s Journey
Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed
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Radical Histories After the 1960s: A CBFS Interview
Conversations in BlackFreedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne
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When the Nevada Supreme Court Tackled Racial Bias
Thirty years ago, seeking to address “the civil unrest in Las Vegas” triggered by decades-long discrimination against Black people throughout
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The Killing of Charles Bush by Las Vegas Police
In the early morning of July 31, 1990, Terri Siddoway left her apartment and journeyed toward a nearby convenience store
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Reproductive Rights, Slavery, and ‘Dobbs v. Jackson’
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In 1662, the Virginia legislature cast a
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