The Weight of History: Confronting America’s Racial Reckoning

As historical record and cultural memory are threatened and contested, reckoning with America’s past remains ever pressing. In Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore, professor and historian Ashley D. Farmer honors the foremother of Black Nationalism, Audley Moore, detailing her influence on the reparations movement, twentieth-century Black radicalism, and the young generation of Black activists. In Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America, award-winning journalist Rita Omokha amplifies the stories of Black revolutionaries of the past century, from 1920s student activist Ella Baker to Black youth protesting police brutality in the 2010s and 2020s.