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Mohammed Elnaiem

Mohammed Elnaiem

Mohammed Elnaiem is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. You can follow him on twitter at @m_elnaiem.

Alice Childress, Paul Robeson and Lorraine Hansberry
Black Radicals

In the McCarthy Era, to Be Black Was to Be Red

The Marxist sympathies of Black radical leaders like Paul Robeson, Alice Childress, and Lorraine Hansberry made them targets for the FBI.
Kimpa Vita and a map of Kongo
Politics & History

Did Kongolese Catholicism Lead to Slave Revolutions?

The legacy of Kimpa Vita, a Kongolese Catholic mystic, was felt from the U.S. to Haiti.
Marcus Garvey
Politics & History

Black Radicalism’s Complex Relationship with Japanese Empire

Black intellectuals in the U.S.—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Marcus Garvey—had strong and divergent opinions on Japanese Empire.
Martin Luther King in 1957
Politics & History

The African Roots of MLK’s Vision

“Ghana tells us that the forces of the universe are on the side of justice… An old order of colonialism, of segregation, discrimination is passing away now.”