On Feb. 26, 1963, Ben Lewis, the first Black elected official from Chicago’s West Side, won what was set to be his second full term on the City Council -- perhaps next stop Congress. Two days later, Lewis was found shot to death in his ward office.
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Freedomways, the African American journal of politics and culture chronicled the civil rights and Black freedom movements starting in the early 1960s.
The opening track of legendary drummer Max Roach's We Insist! Freedom Now Suite. Released in 1960, this album is the result of a collaboration with lyricist Oscar Brown, Jr. and references both the African American civil rights movement and the independence struggles of African countries.
Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.
From 1619 to 2019, this collection of essays, edited by two of the nation’s preeminent scholars, shows the depth and breadth of African American history
Here is a study that seeks to offer insight into the writing of a great classic of revolutionary history.
The parameters of American democracy correlate neatly with the parameters of the nation’s racial hypocrisy.
If you’re wondering what would happen if you crossed Craig Zobel’s The Hunt with that Confederate series D. B. Weiss and David Benioff wanted to make before HBO pulled the plug, the answer is definitely Antebellum.
“Lovecraft Country” is rooted in traditions of horror, and uses that genre’s tools to argue that, for Black citizens, America is not a problem to be solved but a monster to be outrun.
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