By Joshua Bloom, co-author of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther PartyDenial of systemic racism continues following Derrick Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd. A friend told me that recent attacks by police on White protesters proved police aren’t racist. Nothing c
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 for the Study of Negro Life and History, now called the Association for the Study of African American Li