“We didn’t get our forty acres and a mule, but we got you, C[hocolate] C[ity]!”— George Clinton on the title track of Parliament Funkadelic’s 1975 Chocolate City album Black History Month provides …
Read More >By Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson, authors of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life A man is dragged from his seat. A group of police officers congregate around …
Read More >An opportunity to reflect on the numerous events and figures in American history, Black History Month is more than a month; it is an expansive and growing history of America. The recommended …
Read More >By Aldon Morris, author of The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology Today marks the 149th anniversary of the birth of W. E. B. Du …
Read More >Last October marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, when, in 1966, college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton vowed to prevent police brutality against black …
Read More >by Krin Gabbard, author of Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus If you know a little about Charles Mingus, you probably know that he was a …
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Read More >We were taught that American sociology originated with the Chicago School. What if we were wrong? In honor of Black History Month, let’s consider a counterview posed by author Aldon Morris—that W. E. …
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