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About Omari Averette-Phillips
Omari Averette-Phillips is a Ph.D. candidate in History and African American Studies at UC Davis. His research analyzes solidarity and class consciousness through the intersections of race, gender, politics, and labor in the U.S. South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Omari Averette-Phillips is a PhD Candidate in History and African American Studies at UC Davis. He can be reached at omariaverette@gmail.com.
NBN Episodes hosted by Omari:
January 19, 2026
Race in the Crucible of War
When African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their milita…
November 14, 2025
Greater Philadelphia
Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First …
October 25, 2025
Queen Mother
In the world of Black radical politics, the name Audley Moore commands unquestioned respect. Across the nine decades of her life, Queen Mother Moore d…
September 20, 2025
Measuring the Man
In Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln (Reedy Press, 2025), acclaimed scholars Lucas E. Morel and Jonathan W. Whi…
June 17, 2025
Defiant
At the height of the Civil War, on May 12, 1862, Robert Smalls—an enslaved harbor pilot in Charleston, South Carolina—carried out one of the most cour…
January 30, 2025
Dangerous Learning
Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was …
August 22, 2024
The Enslaved and Their Enslavers
In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825 (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Edward Pearson offers a…
July 10, 2024
We Refuse
Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence and Malcolm X’s “by any mean…
June 22, 2024
Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions
Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists (U Georgia Press, 2024) explores the signif…
May 10, 2024
An Unholy Traffic
The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died …
April 13, 2024
The Race for America
As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expand…
March 15, 2024
Shipwrecked
In Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), historian Jonathan…
February 23, 2024
Turn the World Upside Down
In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writers…
February 9, 2024
The Geography of Hate
During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern small towns only to confront the pervasive efforts of white residents deter…
January 26, 2024
Path to Grace
The civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s, and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King Jr…
December 3, 2023
Merze Tate
Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite…
July 29, 2023
Colorblind Tools
In Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power (Northwestern UP, 2022), Marzia Milazzo offers a transnational account of anti-Blackness and …
July 15, 2023
The Fear of Too Much Justice
Glenn Ford, a Black man, spent thirty years on Louisiana’s death row for a crime he did not commit. He was released in 2014—and given twenty dollars—w…
July 2, 2023
Isaac Murphy
Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the…
June 3, 2023
Workers of All Colors Unite
As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costagu…
May 13, 2023
Black Queer Flesh
Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel (U Minnesota Press, 2021) reinterprets key African American novels from the Ha…
May 4, 2023
After Black Lives Matter
The historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd transformed the way Americans and the world think about race and policing. Why did it …
April 15, 2023
Of Black Study
Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with the racial and colonial logic of academic disciplinarity and how the ideas of Black intelle…
March 15, 2023
Samuel Ringgold Ward
Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817–c. 1869) escaped enslavement and would become a leading figure in the struggle for B…