E. JAMES WEST
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This page provides links to some of my public writing, podcasting, and media appearances.

WASHINGTON POST
  • African American Newspapers are a Vital Source of Public Health Information

THE AMERICAN HISTORIAN
Fifty Years Forward: Remembering Civil Rights at American Museums and Historic Sites

BLACK PERSPECTIVES
  • The Radical and Transnational Roots of Black History Month in Britain
  • Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr's Forced Into Glory at 20
  • The 1619 Project and the "Anti-Lincoln Tradition"
  • Eldridge Cleaver and the Afterlives of 1968
  • Paul Boutelle's 1968 Vice-Presidential Campaign
  • A Black Women Communist Candidate
  • Pushing Beyond the Two-Party System: Dick Gregory's 1968 Presidential Campaign
  • African American Presidential Politics and the Black Radical Imagination
  • The Significance of Private Collectors in African American History
  • Queering the Black Press: Remembering BLK Magazine
  • Corporate Influence and the Legacy of Black Power (November 6, 2018)
  • Spike Lee, Nike, and Corporate Activism
  • History is Knowledge, Identity and Power: Lerone Bennett Jr., 1928-2018

NEW BOOKS NETWORK
  • Julia Charles - That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing
  • Simon Hall - Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s
  • Eric Gellman - Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay
  • Edward Onaci - Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation State
  • Nicholas Buccola - The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in Americ
  • Brenna Wynn Greer - Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined American Citizenship
  • Thomas Aiello - The Gravepine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement
  • Adrienne Brown - The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race
  • James McGrath Morris -Eyes on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
  • Patrick Phillips -Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
  • Ethan Michaeli -The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
  • Natalie Byfield -Savage Portrayals: Race, Media, and the Central Park Jogger Story
  • Eric Gardner -Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture
  • Carole McCabe Booker -Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan
  • Interview with Benjamin Fagan -The Black Press and the Chosen Nation

STORIES FROM THE STACKS
  • ​​James West on Seagram's Advertising and Black History

NPR
  • KUT, "In Black America"
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