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Kareem Abdul Jabbar on Bill Russell

John Fea   |  August 2, 2022

Here is Kareem at his Substack page: I always knew I wanted to be active in civil rights, but I didn’t always know how I would do that. I had attended some anti-war and civil rights protests rallies while at...

The Author’s Corner with Davis Houck

Rachel Petroziello   |  July 27, 2022

Davis Houck is Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies at Florida State University. This interview is based on his new book, Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer (University Press of Mississippi, 2022). JF: What led you...

The Author’s Corner with Daniel J. Broyld

Rachel Petroziello   |  July 5, 2022

Daniel J. Broyld is Associate Professor of African American History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. This interview is based on his new book, Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region during the Final Decades of Slavery (LSU Press,...

Does Harvard possess the remains of 7,000 Native Americans and enslaved people?

John Fea   |  June 3, 2022

Here is Gillian Brockell at The Washington Post: Harvard University holds the human remains of thousands of Native American people, despite a 1990 federal law requiring their return, according to a draft report leaked to the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson....

The African American Intellectual History Society announces the finalists for its 2022 Pauli Murray Book Prize

John Fea   |  March 9, 2022

The finalists are: Tamika Nunley, At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press) Jarvis Givens, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (Harvard University Press)  Karen Cook Bell, Running From Bondage:...

The history of “woke”

John Fea   |  February 3, 2022

In a piece at The Washington Post, writer Bijan C. Bayne argues that “woke” is “the least woke word in U.S. English.” Here is a taste: You want to talk about Black history? Well, here’s a bit of etymology about...

National Trust for Historic Preservation will award $3 million to landmarks of Black history

John Fea   |  July 23, 2021

The money will go to Houston’s Freedmen’s Town, Martha Vineyard’s African American Heritage Trail, Historic Athens (Georgia), Denver’s Black American West Museum and Heritage Center, Cherokee State Resort Historical Park (KY), Fort Monroe (VA), Asbury United Methodist Church (DC), Roberts...

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