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Rewriting Shirley Graham Du Bois

March 14, 2019August 12, 2022 Gerald Horne #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

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Shirley Graham Du Bois’s Biographical Writings

March 11, 2019August 12, 2022 Bettina Aptheker #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

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The National Character of Black Oppression

March 6, 2019March 9, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly black nationalism, black politics, capitalism, Politics, race, racism

For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, a small cadre of activist intellectuals sought to understand African American exploitation

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Cardi B. and Black Women’s Political Discourse

March 5, 2019March 9, 2019 Alaina Morgan black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black women, Donald Trump, hip hop, music, racism

In January 2019, rapper Belcalis Almánzar, popularly known as Cardi B., took to social media to condemn President Trump for

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Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

March 5, 2019March 9, 2019 Edward Dunsworth Activism, black politics, Politics, Resistance, South

As the primary setting for slavery, sharecropping, and racialized Southern rural poverty, agriculture has–for good reason–been principally portrayed as a

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