Melissa Turner
Melissa Turner is a an independent historian who studies radical historians and intellectuals. She holds advanced degrees in history and political science and is particularly interested in 20th Century thinkers in Western Europe and the United States.
Articles by
Claude Brown (1937-2002)
Novelist Claude Brown was born in New York City, New York on February 23, 1937 to parents who had migrated...
James Hal Cone (1938-2018)
Born in Fordyce, Arkansas, on August 5, 1938, author and theologian James Hal Cone witnessed the hypocrisy of white Christian...
Mariama Bâ (1929-1981)
Writer and political activist Mariama Bâ was born in 1929 in Dakar, Senegal to a well-to-do family. Her father worked...
J. Max Bond, Jr. (1935-2009)
J. Max Bond, Jr. was a prominent African American architect. He was born in 1935 into a prominent intellectual family...
Hunter Pitts “Jack” O’Dell (1924-2019)
Community organizer and civil rights activist Hunter Pitts O’Dell was born in Detroit, Michigan on August 11, 1924. His father...
Walter Rodney (1942-1979)
Walter Rodney, one of the most important Guyanese intellectual and political figures of the 20th Century, was born on March...
Eric Eustace Williams (1911-1981)
Historian, educator, and politician Eric Eustace Williams was born in 1911 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, to working class parents. His family’s...
Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) (1942- )
Haki R. Madhubuti is a poet, professor, and founder of Third World Press, the nation’s oldest publisher of Black thought...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969- )
Writer and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia on November 13, 1969. Her father, Hirsi Magan Isse,...
C.L.R. James (1901-1989)
Cyril Lionel Robert James was born in the British colony of Trinidad on January 4, 1901. James was a bright...
Lorenzo Johnston Greene (1899-1988)
Dr. Lorenzo Johnston Greene was a pioneering African American historian. Greene was born on November 16, 1899, in Ansonia, Connecticut. ...
Freedomways (1961-1985)
Freedomways was the central theoretical journal of the 20th century black arts and intellectual movement in the United States. From...
