Blood in the Water: A New Book on the Attica Prison Uprising
Today is the beginning of our online roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s new book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison
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Black Protest
False Choices: Identity Politics and Lessons from the Left
Recently my academic-laden social media feeds have been filling up with denouncements of identity politics, or occasionally denouncements of those
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W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead
Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME
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The Problem of Equality: Black Communists and the Women’s Charter
Black Communist Thyra Edwards was not privy to the language of equity, intersectionality, and identity politics used today to describe
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Integration and Sports in the Age of Trump
On November 8, 2016, 62 million people effectively dismissed Colin Kaepernick when they elected Donald J. Trump as the 45th
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