I think I make art because it’s what I’ve always done. It’s how I communicate my dreams. It’s how I stay alive, or rather it’s how I live ...

Keisha N. Blain
Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad interests in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Blain is the author of several books, including Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom; and To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism.
Writing for a Global Audience: An Interview with Poet Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed is one of the most significant literary figures of our time. He has ...
What The Left Today Can Learn from Paul Robeson
Gerald Horne is one of the leading and most influential historians in the nation. His research explores racism in a variety of contexts, involving labor, politics ...
Trump Syllabus 2.0 en Español
Desde su publicación en junio de 2016, en medio de la intensa campaña electoral que llevaría a Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca, el “Trump Syllabus 2.0” ha probado …
Community Politics and Grassroots Activism During the 1920s: An Interview With Shannon King
This month, I interviewed Shannon King about his new book, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era. Dr. King is Associate ...
Trump Syllabus 2.0
On June 19th, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a web version of a mock college syllabus that sought to explore the deep historical and political roots of Donald Trump’s political success ...