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W.E.B. Du Bois, Haiti, and US Imperialism

January 28, 2020January 26, 2020 Crystal Eddins Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialism, slavery, Social Movements, W.E.B. Du Bois

This piece follows up on the January 2019 post “Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change.”

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Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. By then, she had left Alabama

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Charlotta Bass for Vice-President: America’s Two-Parties and the Black Vote

January 21, 2020August 19, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, capitalism, Communism, Politics, white supremacy

Social media has brought the culture wars to a larger audience and demonstrates how conservatives have constructed historical narratives to

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Dying Laughing: Black Fugitivity and Black Queer Precarity

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 Keelyn Bradley black politics, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black women, LGBT, race

If, as Ralph Ellison writes, Black laughter is, as an expression of Black humanity, a threat to white social order

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1619?

January 14, 2020January 12, 2020 Sasha Turner africa, African Diaspora, archives, Historical Memory, slave trade, slavery

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

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