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.
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.
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