Black History

Charles V. Hamilton, 1929-2023: The Philosopher Behind ‘Black Power’
Career
March 5, 2024

Charles V. Hamilton, 1929-2023: The Philosopher Behind ‘Black Power’

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A Black History Addendum to the American Music Industry
Insights
February 6, 2024

A Black History Addendum to the American Music Industry

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Safiya Noble on Search Engines
Social Science Bites
January 8, 2024

Safiya Noble on Search Engines

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Fifty Years of Hip Hop: Celebrating a Cultural Phenomenon
News
August 28, 2023

Fifty Years of Hip Hop: Celebrating a Cultural Phenomenon

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‘People Are Going to Seek the Things That Are Kept From Them’: An Interview with Danian Darrell Jerry

‘People Are Going to Seek the Things That Are Kept From Them’: An Interview with Danian Darrell Jerry

Danian Darrell Jerry is the co-editor, with Walter Greason, of a just-released book, Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of ‘Critical Race Theory’. […]

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Juneteenth Is But One of the United States’ 20 Emancipation Days

Juneteenth Is But One of the United States’ 20 Emancipation Days

Between the 1780s and 1930s, more than 80 emancipations from slavery occurred, from Pennsylvania in 1780 to Sierra Leone in 1936.

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Howard’s Leslie T. Fenwick to Deliver 2023 Brown Lecture in Education Research

Howard’s Leslie T. Fenwick to Deliver 2023 Brown Lecture in Education Research

Leslie T. Fenwick, dean emerita of the Howard University School of Education, will deliver the 2023 Brown Lecture in Education Research.

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Attacking Wicked Problems with Hip-Hop: An Interview with Walter Greason

Attacking Wicked Problems with Hip-Hop: An Interview with Walter Greason

Social Science Space caught up with Walter Greason to discuss hisjourneys, the new book ‘Illmatic Consequences’ he co-edited with Danian Darrell Jerry’, and the current political upheaval circling around the term ‘critical race theory.’

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A Political Scientist Looks at Black Women Judges Who Blazed Trail for Ketanji Brown Jackson

A Political Scientist Looks at Black Women Judges Who Blazed Trail for Ketanji Brown Jackson

Supreme Count=rt nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s rise is, in part, due to the work of those women and Black men – and to Black women judges dating back almost a century.

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Recalling the Founding of the ‘Journal of Black Studies’ a Half Century Ago

Recalling the Founding of the ‘Journal of Black Studies’ a Half Century Ago

A few months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, two Black social scientists in Southern California approached a fledgling academic publisher with a unique proposition: let us launch a journal for another fledgling — the discipline of Black studies.

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Asking Questions, Analyzing Outcomes: Alondra Nelson and the Betterment of Society

Asking Questions, Analyzing Outcomes: Alondra Nelson and the Betterment of Society

A look at the career of Alonda Nelson, who is now essentially the national adviser for social and behavioral sciences in the United States.

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Teaching Black Lives Matter Tenets to Shape Humanizing Research and Methods Pedagogy

Teaching Black Lives Matter Tenets to Shape Humanizing Research and Methods Pedagogy

The 13 principles of Black Lives Matter are the starting point of my qualitative methods courses Researchers, and those who teach them, […]

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