Today, on Presidents’ Day, we rightly celebrate Abraham Lincoln for helping end slavery. But we shouldn’t forget the unstoppable force that also brought down the Slave Power: the several million slaves who left the plantation, many of whom joined the Union Army.
Peniel Joseph’s history of the three Reconstructions.
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John H. Bracey, Jr. (1941-2023), former department chair of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at U-Mass Amherst, answers questions about his life and career.
John H. Bracey Jr.—an architect of Black studies—who helped to create one of the nation’s first doctoral programs in African American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died over the weekend. Bracey was 81.
The discipline emerged from Black struggle. Now the College Board wants it to be taught with barely any mention of Black Lives Matter.
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Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, has effectively declared war on the Black freedom movement.
If you can’t rein in the police, you can’t save democracy
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