Abner Berry Interview

10 Apr 201912 Apr 2019

Abner Berry (1902-1987) was the editor of the Harlem edition of The Daily Worker from 1942 until the 1950s. He was a Communist Party organizer in Harlem and one of…

Violence Against Black Women: Learning from Black Socialist Feminists

6 Apr 20198 Apr 2019

Rachel Domond, Roxbury resident Founders of the Combahee River Collective Beverly Smith (second from left), Barbara Smith (second from right) and Demita Frazier (right) organized a protest in 1979 against…

The FBI’s Fictional “Black Identity Extremism” Movement

27 Mar 201927 Mar 2019

Alice Speri The only connection between the men referenced in the FBI’s “black identity extremism” report, besides their race, is a thread of anger at police violence. “The FBI has…

Feminism and the Mass Movements: 1960-1990

21 Mar 201912 Apr 2019

Donna Goodman The decade of the 1960s saw rebellions and uprisings that lasted until the mid-1970s and resulted in the overthrow of formal segregation, the rise of a formidable antiwar…

International Dimensions in the Resistance to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism

18 Mar 201927 Mar 2019

Abayomi Azikiwe Beginning in the early decades of the 15th century, the African continent faced an unprecedented onslaught where human traffickers and colonisers sought to conquer the people for the…

Further Reflections on Women’s Suffrage and African Emancipation

4 Mar 20196 Mar 2019

Abayomi Azikiwe From the antebellum period through the Civil War and Jim Crow the issues of gender and race were interwoven. A cursory re-examination of the early years of what…