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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The U.S. Occupation of Haiti: A Bibliography
July 28, 2015 marked the one-hundred year anniversary of the landing of U.S. Marines on Haitian soil. A number of
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Last summer, I went up for and just recently received early tenure in the History Department at UNC Charlotte. I
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It has been a year since the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, and Michael Brown in
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I love Ta-Nehisi Coates. David Brooks…not so much. Biases disclosed, their squabble—if one can even call it that—exposes
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