... and unapologetically, white political accountability for state-sanctioned anti-Black violence. 6 The Guardian ’s publicity of Monroe Rogers’s case, and the reaction by American newspapers, both Black and white, to Trotter’s insistence that the “colored press” become a vehicle for Black radical protest...

...." Gerald Horne is professor of black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author, most recently, of Black LiberationlRed Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party (University of Delaware Press, 1993). ...

...Amira Rose Davis This article examines the experiences and representations of three black women who played baseball in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s. The article demonstrates the way the Negro League owners, the black press, and black male sportswriters used varying representations of athletic...

..., were expressed through their own press. George Jackson Brigade members were no small part of this history of Washington State Penitentiary resistance politics. Before the George Jackson Brigade existed, Mark Cook cofounded Washington State Penitentiary’s Black Panther Party chapter (the first...

..., Salford, UK, p. 5. 81. Cocks and Rubery, “Margins of Print,” 3–4 . [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2024 Black press Black internationalism revolutionary papers print culture Claude McKay The history of the audience...

... thought” (145) was only part of a movement with internal, African dynamics. Some Africans came to see black Americans as libera- tors, but, with a lack of opinion surveys or deep research into vernacular columns of the black press, it is hard to estimate how many felt this, and for how long. Greater...

... she so ably chronicles. Few on the left will be willing to adhere to the latter conclusion without qualification. By contrast, while reliant on far more conventional sources, especially the black press, Penny Von Eschen’s account of the rise and fall of African-Americananticolonialism...

..., Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York ...

... and education provided one point of contact. These migrants often found themselves living alongside African Americans in segregated communities. The black press supplied another point of contact. An increasing num- ber of stories published by journalists who had...

... that examine how various marginalized groups challenged media gatekeepers. Kerri K. Greenidge’s article on William Monroe Trotter and the transnational radical Black press reminds us that “post-truth” is not a recent phenomenon that undermines public confidence in the gatekeepers of information; it has also...

...) Left Review 169 (1988) Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Modernity and Double Conscious- Nation 1707-1 837 (New Haven: ness (Cambridge: Harvard Yale University Press, 1992) University Press, 1993) TEACHING IMPERIALISM...

... such as Solomon T. Plaatje, Thomas Mofolo, R.R.R. and H.I.E. Dhlomo, and A.C. Jordan. Autobiographers Peter Abrahams, Es’kia Mphah- lele, Richard Rive, and Frances Baard also receive special consideration, and two final articles concentrate on the black press. This section shows the ways in which...

... Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and editor of the weekly newsletter the Crusader, had been immersed in a local organizing tradition. Unlike Gibson, who worked for CBS, and Mayfi eld and Worthy, who were journalists for the black press...

... an opportunity to advance”—which was really very striking, as well as the rewrite of Africa; Africa disappears in many parts of the black press. There is a pro...

..., a popular black high school teacher, to host the first show for black listeners in Memphis. Williams, who was also an entertainer and a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist in the Negro Press, called his show, ”The Tan Town Jamboree.” To test the success of the show, Ferguson delivered...

... anticolonial wars of the century.17 Responses to the Mau Mau rebellion in the African American community were mixed. Though a sizeable portion of the black press was critical of British colonialism and argued that the rebellion justifiably grew out of the cauldron of colonial exploitation, others...

... ladies who year after year enter the beauty competition if the promoters of the contest would announce in the daily press that very dark or black beauties would not be considered.” Marson aligned anticolonial nationalism to race and to the notion of the representative bodies of beauty queens. She...

... and was debated (and mostly respectfully disputed) for weeks afterward in the black press. The NAACP’s board disciplined an unrepentant Du Bois, banning all public statements critical of the work of the organization and its officers. How to account...