Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th
When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause
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Slavery
Why are Trump Supporters Trying to Spark another Civil War?
As outrageous new events on the campaign trail assault us every day, it is becoming easy to accept the absurdities
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Not Another Slavery Movie
Even before controversial director Nate Parker debuted his Nat Turner movie, The Birth of a Nation, black voices emanated from Black
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Revolving Doors of Fugitivity: Marronage and the Military
In October 1776, the governor of the Brazilian city Salvador da Bahia sent out letters encouraging municipal councils, landowners, captains
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Teaching Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian Political Philosophy
In 1980, Abdias do Nascimento, one of Brazil’s greatest black activists and intellectuals, published a seminal essay titled “Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian
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