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The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 Adam Thomas African Diaspora, Caribbean, Racial Violence, Resistance

In a 1935 copper miners’ strike in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), historian C. L. R. James

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Environmental Crises and Black Liberation: An Interview with Sam Anderson

January 7, 2021January 3, 2021 Emily Hamilton #SamAnderson, Activism, capitalism, education, teaching

Emily Hamilton interviewed Sam Anderson in early December, 2019.  Sam Anderson is a Brooklyn, New York, native and a founding member

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Medicalizing Black Military Service in an Age of Global Imperialism

January 4, 2021January 3, 2021 Christopher D. E. Willoughby book review, medical racism, military, race, racism, sexuality

At the turn of twentieth century, universities in the United States began founding schools of tropical medicine. Schools like Harvard

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The Black Republic: An Author’s Response

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Brandon Byrd #TheBlackRepublic, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Haiti

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

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From Duvalier to Trump: Authoritarian Rule and Transfers of Power

October 22, 2020October 21, 2020 Patrick D. Bellegarde-Smith Donald Trump, Trumpism

My PTSD seems to be back. I can scarcely watch the news. In the day, I easily spent five to

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