Police Dogs and Anti-Black Violence
On July 11, 2017, a video circulated throughout social media depicting the San Diego police deploying a canine against an
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Civil Rights Movement
New Age Activism: Maria W. Stewart and Black Lives Matter
The 1830s was the high-tide of Jacksonianism, an era many historians consider the nadir of early American history. Although universal
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Black Left Student Radicalism of the 1970s: The February First Movement
During the 1970s, Black student radicalism in the United States, which began in the 1960s with organizations such as the
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Remembering Gwen Patton, Activist and Theorist
“Ideas are powerful,” Dr. Gwendolyn Patton used to say when she talked to the younger generation about civil rights and political
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Black Radicalism, Repression, and the “Horne Biographical Method”
This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History Gerald Horne’s first biography on W.E.B.
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