The Sexual Criminalization of Black Women
This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us The Streets Belong to
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Black history
Earl Anthony and the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party was founded on October 15, 1966, with Earl Anthony joining the following April. His 1990 book,
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Utopia in Dark Times
In this turbulent historical moment, I find myself often reflecting on Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower . Butler
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James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual
James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from
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The Spanish Slave Ship Carlotta “Denounced” By a Shark
On September 4, 2022, we remember an important date in the history of the Brazilian nation: 172 years since the
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