Many Americans tell the story of Black-Jewish political relations like this: First, there was the Civil Rights movement, where the two groups got along great. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] This was the mid-1950s to the mid-60s — picture Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. marching arm-in-arm from Selma to Montgomery. And James Chaney, […]
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Winning Artists Announced for Monument to Shirley Chisholm, the First US Black Congresswoman | Hyperallergic
Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous have won the inaugural She Built NYC commission with their dynamic proposal, “Our Destiny, Our Democracy.”
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The Black Power Movement Gets a Permanent Display at the Oakland Museum | Hyperallergic
The museum has opened a permanent exhibition about Black activism in the Bay Area, which, contrary to public perception, was not always an accepting, progressive place.
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I’m Not African American… I’m Black | Ebony
Shahida Muhammad , Ebony [dropcap]What[/dropcap] does it mean to be African American? This is a question that is quietly resurfacing in Black discourse, due to the fact that many of our people are rejecting the term as a means of identification. While African American still manages to be socially accepted, it seems many privately take […]
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If You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelly – Public Books
William Melvin Kelley, the experimental novelist and filmmaker—who mastered and reinvented a kind of midcentury literary style crafted from a colorful array of language and perspectives—died in Manhattan on February 1, 2017, at the age of 79.
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Iconic African-American Olympians Participate in Panel at Heinz History Center
It remains one of the most enduring photos in sports photography: Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medals dangling over their penny numbers, eyes down, black-gloved fists thrust into the air.
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When Black Power Set Racist America On Fire: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
Fifty years ago, the term “Black power” fired into the American vocabulary. In celebration of the fifty-year anniversary of the call for Black power this week, I present this exclusive excerpt from my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
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