... of racial murder to a shocked nation. Evans’s depiction of Till’s body more than a half-century later is a stark reminder of the all-too-recent past. Scarcely new to most African American viewers, its graphic presence in this show highlights the compelling message that history must never be forgotten...

.... I encounter this most frequently in university settings among faculty and students representing specific oppressed groups. I have had African American students for whom any concerns other than justice and decency for their own people are too easily dismissed or relegated to marginal concern. A few...

.... There is no doubt that this is a historic moment. Obama stands in a long line of African American people engaged in the tradition of struggle for freedom, democra­ cy, dignity, and equality. He joins them in asking, “What are we going to do about suf­ fering and despair in America and around the world?” He...

...Paul Von Blum I have written regularly on African American art, including various books, catalogue essays, reviews, and articles, including some in Tikkun . Recently, I have focused on the vibrant community of Los Angeles’ Black artists. Throughout my research, these women and men have...

... of economic opportunity, police brutality, and intractable racism that African Americans faced in the Los Angeles area. Left to right: Death at the Hands of Police and I Can’t Breathe by Toni Scott. Toni Scott ( toniscott.com ), courtesy of Michael Massenburg Left to right: Death at the Hands...

... become ugly. Rather than ending racism and segregation against African Americans, post-war policies, established institutional practices kept it at the heart of American life. Although benefits were officially open to all veterans, African Americans were denied access to most of them. The US Employment...

... in the 1820s. Separately, though often in adjoining neighborhoods, “Working Men” and African Americans discovered their own power by coming together, sharing stories, and claiming a new identity. Many of these early encounters took place in religious congregations, though those who experienced them quickly...

...PAMELA BROWN Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 H istorian peter linebaugh traces the first known African American usage of the concept of Jubilee to an 1834 edition of a children’s magazine called The Southern Rose Bud . The description of slave children singing a hymn reads: “Don’t you...

... engagement, but as a human right. Whether through experiential global engagements with African and other Black heritage sites such as monuments and museums or bringing the world into our classrooms in other exciting ways, children should have the opportunity to learn and to be in spaces that affirm...

...Creative Commons/David Shankbone (top) and Michael Fleshman (bottom) Jewish responses to the Trayvon Martin case were noticeably isolated “in comparison to the tremendous outpouring of passion and energy . . . among African American activists,” the author writes. ...

...Creative Commons/Allie Caulfield/Zoltan Borbereki A 1970 statue by Zoltan Borbereki commemorates the involvement of the African National Congress in the struggle against South African apartheid. ...

... in African holding a sign reading “Dissent Is Demo­ bert Boime, and many others, will thrive American Studies, Communication Studies, and Art History at UCLA. He is the author of cratic.” This sustained political commit­...

... and blacks and gays present. In fact the abolitionists, who were both black and white, created the first American Left, inventing its characteristic tactic, namely agitation, when they rejected the idea that African Americans should be returned to Africa. Just recall the persecution of other great...

... for African American Studies at Princeton University, shows that this fantasy has become a major justification for dismantling the state’s capacity to challenge the real and pervasive discrimination that persists not only in the criminal justice system and in the economy, but also in the ways that the courts...

... After the murder of nine African Americans by a white supremacist in a traditionally African American church, and after years of assaults on African Americans by police and white racists, it’s clear that a major reason the left’s environmental and social justice program has...

... Obama s Blackness.” Author Debra Dickerson has contended, "Black, in our polit­ ical and social reality, means those descended from West African slaves.” By Dicker- son’s logic even those...