The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s

Chapters on the politics of the King Center and the IBW, the IBW and the black studies movement, the institute's role in the development of a black political agenda, and the IBW's financial challenges, infiltration, and eventual downfall expertly trace the decade-long struggle of this think tank and its cadre of activist intellectuals to chart a definitive black policy agenda for African America and the global black world. With current debates revolving around the need for a black agenda during the era of the nation's first black president, scholars, policy makers, and the public alike would do well to reference The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s.