Adolph Reed

Nov 25, 2024 | thesgnl.com | Gustav Jönsson |Adolph Reed

Ever since Donald Trump launched his first presidential campaign in 2016, critics have often described his politics and his supporters’ as “racist.” It’s been a common view of Trump personally for longer than that—going back at least to 2011, when he started questioning whether Barack Obama was really born on American soil.

Dec 15, 2023 | nonsite.org | Adolph Reed |W.E.B. Du Bois

When I learned that the Obamas were producing a biopic on Bayard Rustin, I shuddered a bit in apprehension of what such a project would be. Reports from friends who saw it before I did were not encouraging.

May 5, 2023 | znetwork.org | Adolph Reed |Jennifer Pan

ADOLPH REEDI’m probably getting more crotchety by the day, but I would almost argue at this point that the most crucial racial reckoning in US history was at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in 1864.

May 4, 2023 | jacobin.com | Adolph Reed

Interview by Jennifer C. Pan At forty-seven million, the African American population in the United States is roughly equivalent to that of Spain. Despite the size of one of America’s largest minorities, discussions of black politics tend to be reductive and ahistorical. In cavalier fashion, critics of racism chart a long line of oppression that has its origin in the United States’ earliest days.

Apr 10, 2023 | s-usih.org | Adolph Reed

Editor's Note This is the second part of a two-part essay written by Adolph Reed, Jr. The essay, based on a paper he gave at the University of New Mexico for their annual African American History Month celebration, explores recent debates about the uses–and utility–of Black history in both the academic and public spheres. Part one ran last week.