Zeek Burse’s “Broke Man” and the Legacy of the Radical Blues
On his 2017 album XXII, vocal artist Zeek Burse features Paralee Knight on a track Knight co-wrote called “Broke Man.” The song moves
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Racial Violence
From Sentiment to Struggle: Combating White Supremacy and Liberal Idealism
*This post is the transcript of remarks read at the recent Cornell faculty “kneel-in” against racism. Almost any expression of collectivity can
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White Supremacy, Nazism, and the Republican Party
This past summer, hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis mobilized in Charlottesville, Virginia to prove a point — that they were always here and
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The Black Press and the Ku Klux Klan
“Crouching, cringing, shrinking from both physical and intellectual light,” Chandler Owen wrote, “the Klan is a true anthropoid germ which
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The Soul of Black Comics: An Interview with John Jennings
This month, I had the opportunity to speak with John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and a Cooperating Faculty
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