The Emmett Till Generation
Youth Activism in Jim Crow Jackson, Mississippi, 1963.
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Youth Activism in Jim Crow Jackson, Mississippi, 1963.
The revolutionary look of the Afro hairstyle during the Black Power era.
Despite Anita Hill accusing Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991, the controversy surrounding him now is mainly about his politics. Yet, the story of Justice Thomas exemplifies a longstanding irony of racial uplift efforts: the elevation of Black figures who perpetuate the silencing or mistreatment of Black women.
Photos from the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March often downplay the transformative role of community-rooted power in securing voting rights for all Americans.
Assata Shakur is a lasting symbol of resistance, political commitment, and global struggles for liberation.
The influence of writer and musician Gil Scott-Heron is widely felt. However, assessing his legacy involves figuring out just what kind of artist he was.
In his last and least known book, James Baldwin demonstrates how the Atlanta Child Murders were not an aberration but rather evidence of the failures of integration, the growing divide between the Black poor and the middle classes, and the need to claim the dead as our own.
The success of the integrated production of the 1959 musical King Kong had been highly unlikely, and it symbolized a fleeting burst of hope for a multiracial society in Apartheid South Africa.
Toni Morrison’s Beloved
receives acclaim and suppression in equal measure, proving that unapologetically centering Blackness in literature is still controversial in the United States.
Before beginning his Hall of Fame baseball career, Jackie Robinson served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army, enduring a court martial in pursuit of equal rights for Black soldiers.