Black History
W.E.B. Du Bois exposed capitalist and colonialist roots of white supremacy
February 21, 2020He offered a narrative of humanity that rejects Eurocentric notions of narrow universalism and inevitability that justified the status quo.
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Revolutionary Angela Davis inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame
July 23, 2019From organizing interracial study groups as a teenager to joining the Black Panther Party, to her leadership in the Communist Party, Davis’ history in the movement for change is a long one.
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First martyr of the American Revolution: Former slave Crispus Attucks
July 3, 2019It would take a “second American revolution”—the Civil War—to break the U.S. slaveholder class.
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James Jackson: Communist leader and pioneer fighter for civil rights
June 7, 2019It would be hard to make sense of the civil rights struggles of the ’60s without a knowledge of this earlier movement that Jim Jackson helped build.
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Centering Black life: Groundbreaking filmmaker John Singleton dies at age 51
April 30, 2019Singleton’s films centering the Black experience will live on, inspiring future Black storytellers and showing that these stories can be told, despite the odds.
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