Each month we learn from people’s history scholars in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes. We invite you to listen to the audiograms from the sessions below and then sign up for the rest of the series this year.
Orisanmi Burton on Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
Yoruba Richen on Reconstruction and American Coup: Wilmington 1898
Brian Jones on Racism and Resistance in the North During the Civil Rights Movement
Kellie Carter Jackson on We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on Reparations and Climate Justice
Julius B. Fleming Jr. on Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. on The History of Black Music — A Love Supreme
Heather McGhee on Everyday Solidarity and The Sum of Us
Khalil Gibran Muhammad on The Condemnation of Blackness
Michael Hines on the Fight for Black History in Schools
Blair L. M. Kelley on A People’s History of the Black Working Class
SNCC veteran Courtland Cox on the importance of determination
Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching Truthfully About U.S. History
Howard French on Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Linda Villarosa on Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, April 24, 2023
Kidada Williams on I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction, March 20, 2023
Jeanne Theoharis on Starring Mrs. Rosa Parks: Film Excerpts and Behind the Scenes Commentary, Feb. 6, 2023
Dayo Gore on Want to Start a Revolution? Black Women Radicals Confront the Red Scare, Jan. 23, 2023
Bryan Stevenson on the History of Racial Terror in the United States, Dec. 12, 2022
Matthew Delmont on “We Return Fighting”: The Black Freedom Struggle During World War II, Nov. 14, 2022
Ashley Farmer on Queen Mother Moore, Black Nationalism, and the Centuries-Long Fight for Reparations, Oct. 17, 2022
Alaina Roberts on Black Freedom on Native Land, Sept. 12, 2022
Kelly Lytle Hernández on the 1910 Mexican Revolution, June 6, 2022
Kidada E. Williams on “Seizing Freedom”, May 9, 2022
Johanna Fernández on the Young Lords, April 25, 2022
Martha S. Jones on Reconstruction and Issues of Citizenship, Suffrage, and Movement Building in the 19th Century, Feb. 1, 2022
Jarvis Givens on Fugitive Pedagogy Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, Dec. 21, 2021
Clint Smith on How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, May 10, 2021
Tera W. Hunter on The Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike, March 22, 2021
Judy Richardson on Julian Bond and the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Georgia, Feb. 15, 2021
Kidada E. Williams on Reconstruction: Repression and Resistance, Dec. 14, 2020
Greg Carr on Reconstruction and Juneteenth, June 19, 2020
Dave Zirin on Black Athletes and the Black Freedom Struggle, May 15, 2020
Jeanne Theoharis on The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, March 27, 2020
Twitter
Google plus
LinkedIn