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The Spiritual Life of Jane Manning James, A Nineteenth Century Black Mormon

January 30, 2020January 31, 2020 Chris Cameron Gender, religion

Quincy Newell’s Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, A Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon explores the fascinating life

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Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. By then, she had left Alabama

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Charlotta Bass for Vice-President: America’s Two-Parties and the Black Vote

January 21, 2020August 19, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, capitalism, Communism, Politics, white supremacy

Social media has brought the culture wars to a larger audience and demonstrates how conservatives have constructed historical narratives to

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Mothers 4 Housing and the Legacy of Black Anti-Growth Politics

January 15, 2020February 23, 2020 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Black radicalism, police brutality, Resistance

Yesterday at 6 a.m., deputies of the Oakland Police Department violently evicted an organized group of Black mothers, Moms 4

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Refusing the Biopolitical State: An Interview with Nathalie Batraville

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Rachel Zellars African Diaspora, biopolitics, black feminism, black radical tradition, Black women, Canada, education, Gender, Haiti, pedagogy, sexuality

In a first-of-its-kind study undertaken by political scientist Malinda Smith at University of Alberta in 2018, Smith found that Black professors

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