Growing up, all of the older women I knew (mainly my two grandmothers and the grandmothers of my friends) were anything but activists. Then there is Judy. I had to interview Judy for a class assignment; I wanted to know about 1968 from the perspective of someone who hadn’t been a youth, wasn’t in the […]
Negro Digest/Black World
Negro Digest/Black World is a fascinating artifact because the content of each issue seems to evade rigid binaries like integrationist or nationalist, and therefore became a very real space for public debate. For instance, the November 1966 issue contains an article entitled Black Power Symposium features 12 different opinions on Black Power, offered by a […]