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Claudia Jones and the Price of Anticommunism

September 30, 2020September 27, 2020 Denise Lynn Black women, Communism, Communist Party

Between 1949 to 1958 dozens of Communist Party (CPUSA) leaders were tried, some were convicted, and several served prison terms.

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The Links Between Policing and Environmental Justice

September 28, 2020September 27, 2020 Teona Williams #BlackEcologies, Chicago, police brutality, police violence, University of Chicago

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. At 10:15

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“Too Big To Be Small”: The Life and Legacy of Eric Williams

September 25, 2020September 24, 2020 Erica Williams-Connell #CapitalismandSlavery, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Black political thought, black protest, capitalism, Caribbean, colonialism, education

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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"Cruelties of slavery." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

Distinguishing Abolition from Reform

September 24, 2020September 22, 2020 Sasha Turner #CapitalismandSlavery, abolition, African Diaspora, Black political thought, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, imperialism, race, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor

September 18, 2020September 17, 2020 Andrew Grim electoral politics, police brutality, policing, Politics

Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to

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