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Marcus Garvey’s Vision of Pan-Africanism

September 14, 2018September 18, 2018 Rupert Lewis Caribbean, Cuba, garvey, Garveyism, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is an excerpt from Rupert Lewis’s Marcus Garvey (University of the West Indies Press, 2017). The book is part of the University

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Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago

September 13, 2018September 18, 2018 Teona Williams Activism, Chicago, environment, Great Migration, Migration

Towering skyscrapers dotting the Lake Michigan coastline, “snowy winds,” “blistering suns,” and roaring streets described what Richard Wright aptly called

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‘Stoolpigeons’ and the Treacherous Terrain of Freedom Fighting

September 13, 2018September 16, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black radicalism

On May 15, 2018, Newsweek published a story entitled, “CIA Reveals Name of Former Spy in JFK Files—And He’s Still

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An Exceptional Case? Problematizing Soviet Anti-Racism

September 10, 2018September 16, 2018 Maxim Matusevich anti, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, black internationalism, black politics, Black radicalism

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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George Jackson: Dragon Philosopher and Revolutionary Abolitionist

August 21, 2018August 27, 2018 Joy James Political Prisoners, Prison Abolition, prisons

International Revolutionary Struggle “People who come out of prison can build up a country. Misfortune is a test of people’s

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