Fighting like Fannie Lou: On Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, and the Democratic Process
On August 8th, 2015, Black Lives Matter “shut down” a Bernie Sanders presidential campaign event in Seattle, Washington. Taking the
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Charnesia Corley & a Storify for the #blkwomensyllabus
This past Monday, a young black woman in Texas named Charnesia Corley was stopped by the police as she ran
Read moreWhat is Happening in Waller County?: Sandra Bland and the Sister Comrades Who #sayhername
On Friday, July 10, 2015, just outside of the campus of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) in Waller County, a
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Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls
At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of
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by Barbara Savage University of Pennsylvania This is the fifith day of our roundtable reviewing the book Toward a History of Black
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