Throughout the United States, racial separation remains a common feature of collective life. The consequences are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.
After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.
Soul City was a boondoggle—not a story of lost or forgotten roads tragically not taken.
While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.
She animated the horror and emotional intensity in American labor songs by projecting them like a European opera singer.
The field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion, despite its universalist claims.
Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire.
A new collection explores the early twentieth-century artists and institutions that made the Black Chicago Renaissance possible.
Occasionally, in politics and social-economic struggles, there occur "moments of rupture," periods of dizzying and dramatic change when hosts of opportunities present themselves and existing arrangements of power are radically altered.
A noted historian digs deep into the latest work by an equally eminent scholar who spent much of his career fruitfully exposing the 1921 massacre of thousands of black Tulsa citizens. The book and the review coincided with the mass-murder’ centennial
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