By Janet Kraynak, author of Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life (coming November 2020) The image of a darkened White House from several weeks ago, while screams of protest clamored …
by Randy Shaw, author of The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century Blacks Lives Matter (BLM) has become the broadest, most diverse social movement of our time. Having written The …
by Carolyn McLaughlin, author of South Bronx Battles Last year, I released South Bronx Battles, a chronicle and tribute to the South Bronx as a community that has worked to create a …
By Nikki Jones, author of The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption Calls to defund the police often elicit fear. How will I stay safe, wonder people who associate …
The work of addressing society’s core challenges—whether they be persistent inequality, a failing education system, or global climate change—can be accelerated when scholarship assumes its role as an agent of engagement and …
The work of addressing society’s core challenges—whether they be persistent inequality, a failing education system, or global climate change—can be accelerated when scholarship assumes its role as an agent of engagement and …
The work of addressing society’s core challenges—whether they be persistent inequality, a failing education system, or global climate change—can be accelerated when scholarship assumes its role as an agent of engagement and …
By Scott Kurashige, author of The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit Engulfing cities in both literal and metaphorical flames, a wave of rebellions erupts across the nation amid …
In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a pioneering black intellectual and the son of former slaves, recognizing “the dearth of information on the accomplishments of blacks . . . founded the Association …