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William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist, scholar and friend of Malcolm X, has died
theGrio via AOL· 1 day agoAmilcar Shabazz, a professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at University ...
The Haiti That Still Dreams
The New Yorker· 2 days agoIn 1804, after a twelve-year revolution against French colonial rule, Haiti won its independence, which the United States and several European powers...
Opinion: Education Reform as Social Justice: The Legacy of Washington’s Ramona Edelin
The 74 via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThis month marked a formal goodbye to my dear friend and colleague, an indefatigable fighter for...
Activist and entrepreneur Ari Zorn is running for the open Select Board seat in Egremont
Berkshire Eagle· 2 days agoAri Zorn is the first of four residents who have returned their nominating papers to the Town Clerk...
The Campuses Are a Time Bomb Ticking on America - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
American Spectator· 19 hours agoOne of the signs spotted in the anti-Semitic mob at NYU on Monday read “Capitalism Is Deadly.” The...
Ilyon Woo on her favorite book club - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 6 days agoDespite writing history, the author of "Master Slave Husband Wife" reads mostly novels for pleasure.
How did a white woman come to write the newest definitive text on Philadelphia’s Black history?
Philly.com· 7 days agoFor the past two months, author Amy Jane Cohen has been lecturing about Philadelphia’s Black history...
For whom does the bell toll? Great Barrington church to shut off bell at night for family losing...
Berkshire Eagle· 6 days agoSome people who live downtown say the hourly bell that tolls at First Congregational Church is a...
‘Who Shall Describe Beauty?’ | Darryl Pinckney
New York Review of Books· 6 days agoManhattan was the capital of the twentieth century and Harlem as the Mecca of the New Negro helped to make it so. In Black Manhattan (1930), James Weldon...
Dancing Between Fanon and Du Bois: Meditations on a Sociogenic Theory of War
UC Irvine Today· 5 days agoThis presentation is a meditation on dominant social scientific conceptualizations of "war" and their inadequacy in accounting for black struggle. Through an engagement with Frantz Fanon's concept ...