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Michael Honey is editor of King’s labor speeches, All Labor Has Dignity (Beacon) and author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike: Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign (Norton).
Source: HNN
“It is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages. And I need not remind you this is our [...]
Source: Washington Post
Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming Malcolm X biography could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, died Friday, just days before the book described as his life’s work was to be released. He was 60.
His wife, Leith Mullings, said Marable died from complications of pneumonia at [...]
Once You Learn How to Read, You Will Be Forever Free!~Frederick Douglass
REVIEW Carla L. Peterson received her Ph.D. from Yale and is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of “Doers of the Word”: African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North, 1830-1880.
REVIEW Cheryl Hicks is [...]
LIVE from the New York Public Library & BOOKFORUM presents a Roundtable Discussion: The Death of Black Nationalist Culture? Making Sense of Black Nationalism in the Obama Era, with TA-NEHISI COATES, BAZ DREISINGER, PENIEL E. JOSEPH and VICTOR LAVALLE.
With an African-American president in the White House—and the first black chairman voted to head the Republican [...]
Once You Learn How to Read, You Will Be Forever Free!~Frederick Douglass
REVIEW Lawrence Goldstone is the author of twelve books of both fiction and non-fiction. Six of those books were co-authored with his wife, Nancy, but they now write separately to save what is left of their dishes. Goldstone’s articles, reviews, and opinion [...]
The state office of tourism has added seven sites to Louisiana’s African-American Heritage Trail and launched an interactive Web site to help visitors learn more about places of historical significance to the state’s African American community.
The addition expands on a 2008 effort linking 26 sites across Louisiana through promotional material from [...]
Once You Learn How to Read, You Will Be Forever Free!~Frederick Douglas
REVIEW Dr. Clarence Lusane is the program director for Comparative and Regional Studies. He teaches courses in comparative race relations, modern social movements, comparative politics of the Americas and Europe and jazz and international relations. He is a national columnist for [...]
– George Washington’s name is inseparable from America, and not only from the nation’s history. It identifies countless streets, buildings, mountains, bridges, monuments, cities – and people.
In a puzzling twist, most of these people are black. The 2000 U.S. Census counted 163,036 people with the surname Washington. Ninety percent of them were African-American, a far [...]
Hero or traitor? Ernest Withers’ lens captured pivotal moments in civil rights history. Now, FBI documents expose a darker angle. Soledad O’Brien investigates in “Pictures Don’t Lie,” an In America special, at 8 p.m. ET February 20. This is based on the thorough analysis of Withers’s FBI file done by journalist Marc Perrusquia [...]
I have been driving around the United States for the past five years from Michigan to New York to North Carolina and back and now from Michigan through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and on into Kansas. Driving across the country has taught me so much about the United States. Each of my drives is pack with [...]