The Challenge of Blackness examines the history and legacy of the Institute of the Black World (IBW), one of the most important Black Freedom Struggle organizations to emerge in the aftermath of the a
“This remarkable study offers breakthrough findings and insights about the state of civil rights policies in the post–civil rights era.”—Hanes Walton Jr., coauthor of American
Explores the relationship between race and the rise of conservativism in America and the political setbacks that remained in the way of attempts to remedy oppression and discrimination.
Not long after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, the Institute of the Black World (IBW) was formed to seek, as Dr. King compelled, "a higher synthesis" of Black ideologies, objectiv
