Black History
Connecticut People’s World events this weekend: ‘Teaching Black History – Making Good Trouble’
February 22, 2022The events, scheduled for Feb. 26 and 27, will include a youth march and car caravan honoring Art Perlo.
Read moreRescuing the lost history of anti-colonial fighter and Communist W. Alphaeus Hunton
February 16, 2022Hunton, a leading figure in the struggle for African-American equality and against colonialism, was a well-known figure from the 1930s through the 1950s. The silencing of Black communist history, however, has left his life unexamined by...
Read moreEVENT: The Role of Black Journalism in the Struggle for Freedom
February 11, 2022Thursday - February 17 - 6 pm Eastern FEATURING: Carole Boyce Davies, Jarvis Tyner, and Amandla Thomas-Johnson.
Read more‘The Cultivators’: African American art and history, a superb exhibition in Malibu
January 31, 2022If you are anywhere near Los Angeles, or plan to be from now until March 27, you will find a couple of hours no better spent than with a visit to Pepperdine University’s Frederick R. Weisman...
Read moreBlues singer Bessie Smith shines in a new novel in memoir form
January 7, 2022If Bessie Smith’s story itself is an American phenomenon worthy of recapitulating in any number of artistic forms, it’s as a writer that Crittendon shines.
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