Editorial Board
BC Editorial Board member Dr.Barbara Ransby, PhD - Historian, writer and longtime activist. She is Professor of African American Studies, History and Gender and Women's Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago where she also directs the Gender and Women's Studies Program. Dr. Ransby serves on the editorial board of "Race and Class” and is also the author of the award- winning biography, "Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)". Contact Dr. Ransby and BC.
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Cover Story
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Today, Black studies is under assault.
Scholarship and intellectual communities are only viable if they are dynamic and contested spaces for critical thinking and debate. Black studies began in heated struggle. Here…
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Commentary
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Why Black studies? Any serious student of U.S. history knows our country’s long and violent history when it comes to race.
Scholarship and intellectual communities are only viable if they are dynamic and contested spaces for critical thinking and debate. Black studies began in heated struggle. Here…
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Commentary
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On the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we would do well to remember an observation by the civil-rights organizer Ella Baker: “Martin didn’t make the movement, the movement made Martin.” The same can be said of both Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Veteran organizers from around the…
On the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we would do well to remember an observation by the civil-rights organizer…
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