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Demonizing Diversity Training Isn’t New

November 25, 2020November 22, 2020 Say Burgin Black Power, military, race, racism, white supremacy

In September, President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning “diversity training” in federal agencies. He justified it by saying

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Amiri Baraka, Black Music, and Black Modernity

November 24, 2020November 21, 2020 Wilton Schereka art, Black Arts Movement, Black political thought, jazz, music

I first encountered Amiri Baraka in Fred Moten’s In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. I know

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Crafting a Global Message of Anti-Racism

November 23, 2020November 21, 2020 Nicholas Grant Activism, African Diaspora, Black political thought, black politics, Blacks in Britain, Claudia Jones, colonialism, Eslanda Robeson, race, racism, Resistance, white supremacy

In late October, Kemi Badenoch took to the dispatch box in the House of Commons during a parliamentary debate about

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Those Who Know Don’t Say: An Author’s Response

November 20, 2020November 15, 2020 Garrett Felber #ThoseWhoKnow, carceral state, mass incarceration, Nation of Islam, prisons

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.

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Understanding State Repression and the Carceral State

November 19, 2020November 15, 2020 Mohamad Jarada #ThoseWhoKnow, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.

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