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Between Radicalism and Repression: Walter Rodney’s Revolutionary Praxis

May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, Black political thought, Black radicalism, colonialism, Neoimperialism, repression, Walter Rodney

On June 13, 1980, the Black Marxist, Pan-Africanist, historian, and scholar-activist Walter Rodney was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana.1 That year, students

Frederick Douglass and the Periodization of Reconstruction

April 25, 2019April 22, 2019 Doug Egerton #DouglassForward, black politics, Frederick Douglass, race, Resistance, slavery

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Toward a Synchronic Reading of Frederick Douglass

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Robert Levine #DouglassForward, Activism, Frederick Douglass, Resistance, slavery

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The Trauma of Racial Violence in Frederick Douglass’s America

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Kay Wright Lewis #DouglassForward, black lives matter, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Frederick Douglass, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, racism

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Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of Childhood

April 23, 2019April 22, 2019 Brigitte Fielder #DouglassForward, black childhood, Resistance, slavery

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