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Prison Abolition Syllabus

November 20, 2016September 4, 2018 Guest Poster mass incarceration

On September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, prisoners from at least twenty-one states began striking

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A Black Left Feminist View on Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism

November 10, 2016November 10, 2016 Carole Boyce Davies #BlackMarxism, #CedricRobinson, black feminism, Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson, Claudia Jones

This is the fourth day of our roundtable on Cedric Robinson’s book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical

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Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: An Interview with Gina Athena Ulysse

November 6, 2016January 2, 2017 Grace Sanders Johnson black feminism, black intellectual history, black lives matter, black protest, Haiti, Pan-Africanism

On October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew roared through Haiti’s southwest peninsula taking with it homes, centuries-old structures, and over 800

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“Abolition of Every Possibility of Oppression”: The Black Women’s United Front

November 5, 2016June 19, 2017 Ashley Farmer

On January 25, 1975, over five hundred activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan to discuss the position of women in the

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Kristi Castlin, Brianna Rollins, and Nia Ali. Rio 2016 Olympic Games, August 17, 2016. Source: Cameron Spencer / Getty Images.

Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics: An Interview with Amira Rose Davis

October 14, 2016October 13, 2016 Ashley Farmer Colin Kaepernick, Politics, sports

The country is now recognizing black athletes as protest leaders and the sports field as a viable space for resistance and

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