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A mostly African American audience listens to a speaker at the 5th Pan-African Conference, 1945

The New Black Internationalism

The Movement for Black Lives has developed an incipient internationalist language and vision, with the potential to remap America’s place in the world.
by Adom Getachew via Dissent on October 9, 2021
Young Lords Party demonstration

The Revolution That Wasn’t

Do we give the activist groups of the 1960s more credit than they deserve?
by Michael Kazin via The New Republic on July 30, 2021
Black-and-white image of John Coltrane writing on a piece of paper, with a saxophone in his lap.

How Malcolm X Inspired John Coltrane to Embrace Islamic Spirituality

Reflections on "A Love Supreme," artistic transformation, and the Black Arts Movement.
by Richard Brent Turner via Literary Hub on May 4, 2021
Worshipers at a Pentecostal church, Chicago, 1941

A Praise House of Many Mansions

In a book and documentary series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a wide-ranging tour of Black religion in America.
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar via New York Review of Books on April 29, 2021
Mark Rudd addresses students as president of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society on May 3, 1968.

Mark Rudd’s Lessons From SDS and the Weather Underground for Today’s Radicals

The famous activist reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.
by Mark Rudd, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on March 29, 2021
Artistic photo of Malcolm X

Malcolm’s Ministry

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.
by Brandon M. Terry via New York Review of Books on February 4, 2021
Three panels of a graphic depicting Soul city. Images include two people walking in a street, people playing golf, and the inside of a mall

The Plan to Build a Capital for Black Capitalism

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?
by Kelefa Sanneh via The New Yorker on February 1, 2021
Christmas yard decorations with an inflatable black Santa and "JOY".
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Black Santas Have a Long and Contested History in the U.S.

What’s at stake in debates about the meaning and visibility of the Black Santa.
by E. James West via Made By History on December 23, 2020

James E. Hinton’s Unseen Films Reframe the Black Power Movement

The filmmaker and photographer’s work shows late-sixties Black activism to be a joyful, community-building project.
via The New Yorker on September 25, 2020
Fidel Castro and Malcom X sitting and laughing together

'Ten Days in Harlem': An Interview with Historian Simon Hall

Fidel Castro's visit to Harlem at the intersection of two themes that shaped the 1960s: the Black freedom struggle and global protest during the Cold War.
by Say Burgin, Simon Hall via Black Perspectives on August 31, 2020
Demonstrators surround a police car during the Watts uprising in 1965
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Understanding Today’s Uprisings Requires Understanding What Came Before Them

The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.
by Jeanne Theoharis via Made By History on August 11, 2020

Why Bill Clinton Attacked Stokely Carmichael

Clinton disparaged Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral. But Black radicalism speaks more to the present moment than Clinton’s centrist politics.
by Amandla Thomas-Johnson via Jacobin on August 6, 2020
Protester holding a "Defund the Police" sign.

Defund the Police

Protest slogans and the terms for debate.
by Austin McCoy via Perspectives on History on June 12, 2020

The Unhealed Wounds of a Mass Arrest of Black Students at Ole Miss, Fifty Years Later

At a peaceful protest of Confederate imagery in the school in 1970, dozens of students were arrested, suspended, and the remainder expelled.
by W. Ralph Eubanks via The New Yorker on February 23, 2020

How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music

The political rumblings beneath his 1969 album, "Hot Buttered Soul."
by Emily J. Lordi via The New Yorker on October 1, 2019

Rihanna Reveals the Story Behind her Latest Collection’s Imagery

How the 1960s Black Is Beautiful movement inspired her latest Fenty fashion collection.
by Sarah Mower via Vogue on May 29, 2019
Malcolm X

The Explosive Chapter Left Out of Malcolm X’s Autobiography

Its title, 'The Negro', seemed innocuous enough. But Malcolm X intended it to invoke a much harsher meaning.
by Zaheer Ali, Missy Sullivan via HISTORY on March 5, 2019

The Assassination of Fred Hampton

The young Civil Rights activist was killed in the dead of night by police and the FBI. Who was Fred Hampton?
by Mariah-Rose Marie M via The Nib on February 15, 2019
Martin Luther King Sr., Rosalynn Carter, Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Jimmy Carter, and 2 unidentified men holding hands at a service at Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Andrew Young, Marc Lamont Hill, and Palestine

How the resignation of a Carter era ambassador still echoes today.
by Michael R. Fischbach via Stanford University Press on December 20, 2018
"Black Panther" comic book cover.

Black Panther and the Black Panthers

Much is at stake in understanding the history and relationship between black superheroes and black revolutionaries.
by Amy Ongiri via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 23, 2018
MLK with rabbi and bishop at Arlington Cemetery

Exploding Myths About 'Black Power, Jewish Politics'

Marc Dollinger argues that the conventional wisdom of Black and Jewish harmony during the civil rights era is flawed. The real story has lessons for today.
by Marc Dollinger, Leah Donnella via NPR on June 4, 2018

King's Death Gave Birth to Hip-Hop

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. led directly to hip-hop, an era that is often contrasted with his legacy.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on April 8, 2018
Student protesters at Columbia University in 1968.

“The Whole World Is Watching”: An Oral History of the 1968 Columbia Uprising

In April 1968, students took over campus buildings in an uprising that caught the world’s attention. Fifty years later, they reflect on what went right and what went wrong.
by George Pataki, Mark Rudd, Nancy Biberman, Juan González, Hilton Obenzinger, Paul Auster, Clara Bingham, Robert Friedman, Eleanor Stein, Stuart Gedal, Arnim Johnson, Brian Flanagan, Raymond Brown, Karla Spurlock-Evans, Tom Hurwitz, James Branch, Michelle Patrick, Stephan Salisbury, Vaud Massarsky, Michael Rosenthal, Richard Eagan, Mike Reynolds, Gary Beamer via The Hive on March 26, 2018
Catalog, in red and black, for Drum & Spear Bookstore, depicting silhouettes of three people with afro hairstyles.

The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores

At the height of the Black Power movement, the Bureau focused on the unlikeliest of public enemies: black independent booksellers.
by Joshua Clark Davis via The Atlantic on February 19, 2018

Memories of Mississippi

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.
by Danny Lyon via New York Review of Books on January 10, 2018
Customers at an African American bank in Harlem.
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We Need More Government, Not Less, in The War on Poverty

The myth of the “dependent” poor.
by Mehrsa Baradaran via Made By History on December 8, 2017
Stokely Carmichael talking to members of the press at the House Rules Committee (1966).

How to Fight White Backlash

What three seminal books from 1967 can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.
by Robert Greene II via Dissent on November 10, 2017

William Bradford Huie’s “The Klansman” @50

With Donald Trump bringing the Ku Klux Klan back into the spotlight, we must return to William Bradford Huie's 1967 novel.
by Riché Richardson via Public Books on September 12, 2017

New Age Activism: Maria W. Stewart and Black Lives Matter

Black women have always been equal partners in, if not central to, the tradition of Black protest and liberation movements.
by Westenley Alcenat via Black Perspectives on July 24, 2017
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Black History Month

What does Black History Month leave out?
by N. D. B. Connolly via BackStory on March 7, 2017
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