Who We Talk About When We Talk About Gentrification
When the topic of gentrification is at hand, recent headlines suggest the stakes of the debate. “Gentrification Isn’t a Benign
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Activism
The Environment as Freedom: A Decolonial Reimagining
“The environmental movement is, in my view, the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity in the modern world” said Myron
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Black Left Student Radicalism of the 1970s: The February First Movement
During the 1970s, Black student radicalism in the United States, which began in the 1960s with organizations such as the
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Remembering Gwen Patton, Activist and Theorist
“Ideas are powerful,” Dr. Gwendolyn Patton used to say when she talked to the younger generation about civil rights and political
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Fears of Black Political Activism in Cuba and Beyond, 1912–2017
Images of police officers violently targeting black protestors in Buenaventura, Colombia, restraining Black Lives Matter activists in Charlotte, NC, or
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