Deirdre Osborne, editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature, explores the legacy of Black History Month and the current state of Black and Asian writing in Britain.
Read MoreCheck out our reading list for UK Black History Month!
Read MoreSylvester A. Johnson, the author of African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom (2015), explores what Black history reveals about the larger state of national security and American Islam.
Read MoreWe mark Black History Month with a series of blog articles recalling some of the important people and events in African American history.
Read MoreWe mark Black History Month with a series of blog articles recalling some of the important people and events in African American history.
Read MoreMegan Ming Francis, author of Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State, discusses how the NAACP created opportunities for black civil society to challenge Jim Crow.
Read MoreHistorian David Williams, author of I Freed Myself (forthcoming March), reveals how black slaves seized their own freedom--and by doing so, precipitated the Emancipation Proclamation.
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