Paige Glotzer, "How the Suburbs Were Segregated...
Glotzer examines the history surrounding how modern housing segregation was purposefully planned out beginning at the turn of the 20th Century...
53 min
1152
Edward Onaci, "Free The Land: The Republic of N...
On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States...
53 min
1153
Neil Roberts on How Ideas Become Books in Afric...
Where do good ideas come from?
86 min
1154
H. Moore and J. Tracy, "No Fascist USA!" (City ...
Hilary Moore and James Tracy recounts the stories of fearless organizers and activists who created an anti-racist social movement that fought against the normalization of white supremacy during the 1970s and 1980s...
66 min
1155
Joshua Bennett, "Being Property Once Myself: Bl...
Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human...
55 min
1156
Scott Seider and Daren Graves, "Schooling for C...
Seider and Graves address how schools can help Black and Latinx youth to understand these racial disparities, resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes...
81 min
1157
Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Vot...
Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?
46 min
1158
Frank Wilderson III, "Afropessimism" (Liveright...
How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State?
56 min
1159
Bharat Malkani, "Slavery and the Death Penalty:...
What is the connection between the movement for death penalty abolition and the anti-slavery movement?
29 min
1160
Nemata Blyden, "African Americans and Africa: a...
“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in "Color."
54 min
1161
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
1162
Kathryn H. Ross, "Black Was Not a Label" (Pront...
Ross is a writer of humanness, one who finds more interest in what we feel than theme...
33 min
1163
Carl Suddler, "Presumed Criminal: Black Youth a...
Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely...
62 min
1164
Manuel Barcia, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Figh...
Barcia offers a striking rendition of the diseases that swept through the illegal slave trade Atlantic World...
44 min
1165
Brandon K. Winford, "John Hervey Wheeler, Black...
John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders...
76 min
1166
Natasha J. Lightfoot, "Troubling Freedom: Antig...
Lightfoot traces the ways Antiguans and Barbudans experienced freedom in the immediate years before and decades after British emancipation in 1834...
71 min
1167
Forrest Stuart, "Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, D...
How do young men use drill music and social media to gain power?
61 min
1168
Kenesha N. Grant, "The Great Migration and the ...
Grant analyses the impact of the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, and how this changed the political dynamics in many of the places where African Americans settled and built new lives...
49 min
1169
Anne Heffernan, "Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Poli...
Heffernan offers a thoroughly researched account of the Black Consciousness Movement, student activism, and politics in South Africa from the 1960s to the present...
64 min
1170
Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African Am...
Brock theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained...
42 min
1171
Le’Trice D. Donaldson, "Duty Beyond the Battlef...
Donaldson investigates how African American soldiers used their military service to challenge white notions of an African American second-class citizenry and forged a new identity as freedom fighters...
71 min
1172
Adam H. Domby, "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrica...
Domby has written a rigorous analysis of American political memory as it connects to the Civil War and long shadow of the Confederacy,,,
52 min
1173
Christopher Tomlins, "In the Matter of Nat Turn...
In 1831, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and quickly convicted and executed...
65 min
1174
Mary Stanton, "Red, Black, White: The Alabama C...
Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, the book acquaints a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on postwar black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans.
35 min
1175
Miriam J. Abelson, "Men in Place: Trans Masculi...
Abelson and I discuss the various types of masculinity she identified in her study, such as hypermasculine men, regular guys, and men who seek to embody what Abelson calls “Golidlocks masculinity.”