Reviewer Buhle explores a new biography of one of the most important and controversial Black intellectuals of the 1960s.
Dave Zirin traces the radical career of Howard Zinn, whose “A People’s History of the United States” has sold millions of copies.
How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump everything.
The Haitian filmmaker has spent 40 years using the archives to combat historical erasure and to highlight the people’s version of the past.
This book, writes reviewer Early, "is a fine, solidly written biographical and political study of Jesse Jackson and the rise of Black presidential aspirations in the American two-party system."
Meet a surprisingly influential woman you’ve likely never heard of.
Hartigan’s book is the first full-length examination of Wilson’s life and art since his death in 2005 from liver cancer. There is both a need and demand for the story of how he and his work came to be.
How did a single chapter from a book written over six decades ago by a Black psychiatrist, who never discussed the Israel-Palestine issue, become widely cited in relation to October 7? A new biography explores the life of Frantz Fanon.
The pitfalls of seeing history through the “great man” lens.
During his lifetime, Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African American, was among the most famous poets in the United States. It is one of the great paradoxes of the early Jim Crow era. This biography sheds new light on the writer's life and work.
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