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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American identity
Confederate Flags in the Jim Crow North
Photo: Opponents of local civil rights activists raise a Confederate flag in the Bronx, July 1963 *** Over the years,
Read moreSomebody Has to Pay: Audley Moore, Mother of the Reparations Movement
With Ta-Nehisi Coates’ celebrated article, “The Case for Reparations,” and the recent awarding of reparations to victims of police torture
Read moreRoundtable on Black Women’s Intellectual History Day 2: Parts Two and Three
By Hettie V. Williams Monmouth University This is the second day of a four part roundtable reviewing the book Toward a
Read moreCulture Warriors: Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring and Afro-Asian Critique
**This is the fifth installment of my series on Afro-Asia, examining the cultural and political exchanges and historical connections between people of
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