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New Releases in African American Intellectual History

September 5, 2015September 13, 2015 Chris Cameron

Below are new books in African American intellectual history soon to be published or already published within the last 6

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This week in “Tales of False Equivalency from the Rabid Right”

August 31, 2015September 1, 2015 Patrick Rael Charleston

If there’s anything worse than having to read the details of Vester Flanagan’s murderous rampage, it is watching cynical right-wing

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Black. Intellectual. Historian.

August 31, 2015September 2, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount T. Thomas Fortune, Ta-Nehisi Coates

  [CLICK IMAGES FOR HIGHER RESOLUTION] Last week I moved to Harlem.  On Sunday I spent the day with Jean

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Did abolitionism cause the Civil War?

August 29, 2015August 30, 2015 Patrick Rael

I recently came across a review on a conservative website of Thomas Fleming’s A Disease in the Public Mind: A

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“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law

August 25, 2015August 25, 2015 Christopher Bonner

In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris, Jr. amidst an outbreak of violence during protests in

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