Linda Royster Beito, co-author of the new book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, was interviewed on Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight program […]
Category: black studies
Illinois Press author comments on Gates arrest
Nathaniel Norment, Jr., author of the new book The Addison Gayle Jr. Reader, is quoted by Temple University’s Newswise. If this is the first time Professor Gates has been arrested, after having […]
History News Network features Evans & Bradley
Authors of two recent University of Illinois Press books are featured this week on the History News Network. Open Wound author William McKee Evans on race in the United States: Scholars who locate […]
Harper’s Magazine online interviews David Beito
David Beito, co author of the new book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, was interviewed by Scott Horton for Harper’s online. Q. “You […]
David Beito in National Review Online
David Beito, co-author of the new book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, was interviewed by John J. Miller for National Review Online. JOHN […]
Sojourner Truth celebrated in the U.S. Capitol
CNN reports that a memorial bust of Sojourner Truth was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol today making Truth the first African-American woman to be so honored. To learn more about her life and times, […]
T. R. M. Howard by David Beito
In the first review of Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, Damon W. Root writes in Reason magazine: No single individual brought down the South’s […]
Reason reviews “Black Maverick”
The April 2009 issue of Reason magazine contains a favorable review of the new book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. [A] captivating […]
Is President Obama Reading a UI Press book?
On inauguration day, Aretha Franklin gave President Barack Obama a collection of her dad’s sermons, along with a biography of her late father. Is it possible that she gifted Obama […]
Antenor Firmin predicted America’s first Black president in 1885! by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) was a Haitian scholar whose De l’égalité des Races Humaines (Anthropologie Positive) in 1885 (Paris) was a response to European racialist and racist thought in the […]
Corey D. B. Walker interview
An interview with Corey D. B. Walker, assistant professor in the department of Africana Studies at Brown University and author of the new book A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry […]
The professor of Foxy Brown
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