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Remembering Afro-German Intellectual May Ayim

September 6, 2017September 9, 2017 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, black feminism, Black German, black intellectual history, black women's internationalism, poetry

It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August

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The Poetic Theology of Essex Hemphill

September 1, 2017November 4, 2018 J. T. Roane Literary studies, poetry, spirituality

Facing the innumerable deaths of friends and loved ones, as well as the likelihood of his own untimely passing, Washington,

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The Criminalized Majority

July 21, 2017July 24, 2017 Guest Poster Activism, black politics, black radical tradition, mass incarceration, racism

by Dan Berger and David Stein “Everyone should go to jail, say, once every ten years,” opined novelist and poet

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The Unjustly Disadvantaged: African American Life and Political Philosophy

July 1, 2017July 7, 2017 Paul C. Taylor black politics, poverty

Can academic philosophy be a resource for understanding and enriching African American life? A growing contingent of students and scholars

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Can Reparations Save American Politics?

June 29, 2017July 1, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, University of Chicago

Nowhere does ‘the perfect become the enemy of the good’ so incessantly than in contemporary debates over reparations. Perhaps this

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