Bill V. Mullen is coauthor with Jeanelle K. Hope of The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back From Anti-Lynching to Abolition.
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, a self-described “anti-communist cult leader” used a selectively edited video to falsely accuse labor historian and tenured professor Tom Alter of inciting violence. Texas State University’s president swiftly fired him.
The author of Black Reconstruction was also one of the pioneers of Pan-African socialism. Working with and influencing figures like George Padmore, C. L. R. James, and Kwame Nkrumah, Du Bois sowed the seeds of global revolt against racism and capitalism.
How a Republican governor hostile to public education became the president of Purdue University.