February 21, 2024
John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community is the first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis. Author Raymond Arsenault talks with us about his research… READ MORE
February 16, 2024
Neil Duncanson— Harry Edward took a deep breath, pushed his spikes into the holes he’d just dug in the sodden cinder track and dropped his head. A vos marques. It… READ MORE
February 2, 2024
Black History Month, or African-American History Month, was proposed in February of 1969 by students at Kent State University. Later to be federally recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976,… READ MORE
June 19, 2023
On June 19th, 1865 in Galveston, Texas, enslaved African Americas were the last to hear of the news of the Emancipation Proclamation. Recognized as a federal holiday in the United… READ MORE
February 1, 2023
Mari N. Crabtree— The downpour came suddenly, and it was loud. Hours of driving through steady rain had lulled me into believing that the remnants of the most recent hurricane… READ MORE
November 29, 2022
Sarah Louise Cowan — In 1993, artist and art historian Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis called for a “Black feminist art history discourse” that would “prioritize the lives and concerns of… READ MORE
November 15, 2022
Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination exposes how Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy. In what might be… READ MORE
June 16, 2022
Earnestine Jenkins— My new book, Black Artists in America: from the Great Depression to Civil Rights, (which accompanies an exhibition of the same name that was on view at the… READ MORE
November 9, 2020
Abigail Zitin— I remember it being at eye level; else how would it have caught my eye? I had gone to see Mastry, an exhibition of works by the African-American painter Kerry… READ MORE
We Can’t Innovate Our Way Out of Ecocide
