John H. Bracey Jr.—an architect of Black studies—who helped to create one of the nation’s first doctoral programs in African American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died over the weekend. Bracey was 81.
The discipline emerged from Black struggle. Now the College Board wants it to be taught with barely any mention of Black Lives Matter.
America’s favorite pastime is taking center stage in a new production at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. “Toni Stone” is the story of the first woman to play in baseball’s Negro Leagues.
Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, has effectively declared war on the Black freedom movement.
If you can’t rein in the police, you can’t save democracy
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.
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