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Hugging History: Sense and Memory in HBO’s Watchmen

February 13, 2020February 13, 2020 Ambre Dromgoole #Watchmen, Historical Memory, popular culture, race, spirituality, Visual Culture

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen.  In episode 2

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Housing Discrimination in the Jim Crow US and The Case for Reparations

February 4, 2020February 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors housing, segregation, urban history

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Eldridge Cleaver and the Afterlives of 1968

February 3, 2020February 2, 2020 E. James West Black political thought, electoral politics, Politics, presidents

*Fifth and final instalment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential campaign* In the November 7, 1968

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The Imperial History of US Policing: An Interview with Stuart Schrader

January 29, 2020January 26, 2020 Dan Berger African Diaspora, black protest, Black radicalism, police brutality, police violence, policing, race, W.E.B. Du Bois

In today’s interview, Dan Berger speaks with Stuart Schrader about his new book, Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed

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W.E.B. Du Bois, Haiti, and US Imperialism

January 28, 2020January 26, 2020 Crystal Eddins Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialism, slavery, Social Movements, W.E.B. Du Bois

This piece follows up on the January 2019 post “Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change.”

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