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The term “liberal arts” is one of the most misunderstood terms in the public discourse on higher education today. A higher education expert once said that putting the words “liberal” and “arts” together was a “branding disaster” – one so toxic that it was undermining public support for higher education.…

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Brandeis professor discusses how an unpublished manuscript by the great Black intellectual inspired his own epic work

Chad L Williams charts the great Black intellectual’s journey through the first world war. It makes essential reading

The poet’s collection of essays, an archive of social and racial flashpoints, pay tribute to the Caribbean artists whose radicalism shaped his verse

The opening days of Black History Month 2023 have coincided with controversy about the teaching and broader meaning of African American studies.

The ruling class does not want us to know who we are, or to understand the struggles of those who came before us

The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list.

“Are Black audiences, actors, and producers simply conditioned to having their stories told by white counterparts?” screenwriter and director Darian Lane, who is Black, wondered in a 2021 op-ed for Ebony.

In March 1929, a debate brought Black scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois and eugenicist Lothrop Stoddard to Chicago to argue for and against Black civil rights. Here’s how it went down.

This account of an African American family’s journey across centuries, from slavery to present times, engages deeply with history