Fighting like Fannie Lou: On Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, and the Democratic Process
On August 8th, 2015, Black Lives Matter “shut down” a Bernie Sanders presidential campaign event in Seattle, Washington. Taking the
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Charnesia Corley & a Storify for the #blkwomensyllabus
This past Monday, a young black woman in Texas named Charnesia Corley was stopped by the police as she ran
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Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls
At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of
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Photo: Opponents of local civil rights activists raise a Confederate flag in the Bronx, July 1963 *** Over the years,
Read moreSomebody Has to Pay: Audley Moore, Mother of the Reparations Movement
With Ta-Nehisi Coates’ celebrated article, “The Case for Reparations,” and the recent awarding of reparations to victims of police torture
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