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Marronage and the Great Dismal Swamp

December 4, 2020December 1, 2020 Warren Milteer North Carolina, racism, Resistance, slavery, South, Virginia

For recent scholars, the Great Dismal Swamp—an ecological treasure that stretches across present-day Virginia and into North Carolina—stands as a

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Black Brazilian Researchers and Activists Respond to Covid-19

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 Kia Lilly Caldwell African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, COVID-19, health, race, racism

By late May 2020, Brazil was the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world. 

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Online Roundtable: Brandon R. Byrd’s ‘The Black Republic’

November 30, 2020November 29, 2020 AAIHS Editors #TheBlackRepublic

December 7-11, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online roundtable on

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Fire Suppression, the Carceral State, and Black Ecological Knowledge

November 12, 2020November 9, 2020 Celeste Henery black, Black Ecologies, carceral state, environment, literature, poetry, prisons, race, racism

As I write, major wildfires burn in the state of California. A mixture of droughts, human-altered landscapes, dense vegetation, and

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Black Radical Activists and the Dangers of the Police State

November 11, 2020November 9, 2020 Denise Lynn Black political thought, black politics, class, Communism, police brutality, police violence, policing, prisons, race, Racial Capitalism, racism

During recent anti-police brutality protests and marches across the United States, American police forces have displayed the very behavior that

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