Seated behind a long table in a book-lined room at Dutton’s Brentwood Bookstore, Stephen L. Carter looks as if he has merely paused between late afternoon classes. In a sense, he has. In navy blazer ...
The Black bourgeoisie is very present in corporate America. From The Links to The Boule, there are several Black social clubs that cater to those in what scholars call “the Black elite.” And Black ...
She became Hollywood's first glamorous Black movie star. We're going to listen back to an interview with her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley, who wrote of her family's journey from enslavement to the ...
The black feminist Combahee River Collective manifesto and E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie share the diagnosis that the wealthy and powerful will take every opportunity to hijack activist ...
We dive into the powerful history of Black Americans in Erie, Pennsylvania. We dive into the powerful history of Black Americans in Erie, Pennsylvania. From the early foundations of strong, ...
Previously I touched on the history of how the Progressive Labour Party got its name. In this piece, I aim to explore what being “Progressive”’ meant to the founders of the party, and what it can — or ...
Many of the people who invoke Fanon don’t seem to have read his extraordinarily prescient The Wretched of the Earth, and, more particularly, its chapter “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness”.
To the Editors of the CRIMSON: The Negro "status seeker," as Mr. Frederick H. Gardner justly observed in last Friday's CRIMSON, is not an effective "equalitarian." He does not win our admiration as do ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television Studies at Rowan University. Many of you may recognize this voice. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "STORMY WEATHER") LENA HORNE: (As Selina Rogers, ...
Preface to the Collier Books Edition -- Introduction-Negro Slavery and the Plantation -- The Impact of Western Civilization -- A Nation within a Nation? -- Purpose of the Present Study Part 1: The ...