The Last Negroes at Harvard

Darryl Cooper talks with Breaking Points.com about the coming Israeli invasion of Gaza

Veteran network News Anchor and Podcaster, Larry Sparano talks about genocide in Gaza.

Christiane Gruber is a Professor of Islamic art in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her primary field of research is Islamic book arts, paintings of the Prophet Muhammad, and Islamic ascension texts and images. 

Tamara is Walker is an historian, writer, and non-profit founder. Her new book is titled Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad. She is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College. In addition to her scholarly pursuits, Tamara is the co-founder of The Wandering Scholar , a 501c3 nonprofit focused on making international travel accessible to high school students...

Victor Luckerson  is a journalist and author based in Tulsa, Oklahoma who works to bring neglected black history to light. He was nominated for a National Magazine Award for his reporting in Time on the 1923 Rosewood Massacre.  His new book is titled Built From the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street.  Victor’s book is a multi-generational saga of a fami...

Michael Kippins joined Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) as the Lauren Sampson Fellow in 2023.  In this role, Michael represents clients in a variety of civil rights cases, including police accountability, education, employment, and climate justice.

Nat Keohane is an American environmental economist who serves as president at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) .  Dr. Keohane is an economist with more than 20 years of energy and environmental policy experience in academia, government, and the non-profit sector, most recently as Senior Vice President for Climate with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where he led all of EDF’...

Rachel Swarns She is a journalism professor at New York University and a contributing writer for The New York Times . Swarns has been a foreign correspondent for the Times while reporting from Cuba , Russia and southern Africa (where she was the Johannesburg bureau chief). Swarns wrote the book American Tapestry (2012) about the history of Michelle Obama 's ancestors.  Her new book is titled The 2...

Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. His book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 202. How the Word is Passed: is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,0...

In their new book, Ali Winston & Darwin BondGraham trace the history of Oakland since its inception through the lens of the city’s police department, through the Palmer Raids, McCarthyism, and the Civil Rights struggle, the Black Panthers and crack eras, to Oakland’s present-day revival. The book is the culmination of over twenty-one years of fearless reporting. They shine a light on the jackb...

 Gregory May is a historian who writes about the early American republic is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After working as a Supreme Court law clerk, Greg practiced law in Washington, DC and New York for thirty years. He lives in Virginia.  His book tells the untold saga of John Randolph’s 383 slaves, freed i...

Brett Forrest is a national-security reporter for The Wall Street Journal , where his investigative work focuses on the former Soviet Union. His new book is about a young American lost in Russia. An FBI-cover up. A mystery leading from Washington to the heart of the Kremlin's war in Ukraine. 

Ned Blackhawk is a historian at Yale University and a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone. He has written a sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.

Omavi Shukur is a Practitioner-in-Residence at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought’s Initiative for a Just Society. He also holds an appointment as an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Law.  He examines how laws that criminalize resisting arrest harden white social dominance and deepen black racial subordination. 

Our Harvard classmate Richard Rothstein has now teamed with his daughter, housing policy expert Leah Rothstein to write Just Action , a blueprint for concerned citizens and community leaders. This book describes dozens of activities that readers and supporters can undertake in their own communities to make their commitment real, producing victories that might finally challenge residential segregat...