Remembering Malcolm
This week on Black Perspectives, we mark the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with a week-long forum, “Remembering Malcolm,”
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Black Identity
Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence, Part 4
This essay is Part Four of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first
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Frederick Douglass, Haiti, and Diplomacy
Frederick Douglass was doing an amazing job and deserved more and more recognition. That idea dawned on Republican President Benjamin
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Resisting Racism and Islamophobia: Lessons from Muslim Slave Narratives
The highly contested executive order that sought to deny citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries entry into the United States has
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“More and More Influential”: Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump
As President Trump recently said on the occasion of Black History Month, Frederick Douglass “is being recognized by more and
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