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Beyond the Black Paradigm? Queer Afro-diasporic Strategies

October 22, 2018November 3, 2018 Fatima El-Tayeb African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Black German, Black Queers, blackness, Racial Capitalism

*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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A Tool for Our Times: Legacies of Black Radicalism and Communism

October 19, 2018November 3, 2018 John Munro black radical tradition, Black radicalism

Speaking recently about “Mapping Communist Internationalism and Class Struggle Then and Now” at the social movement incubator that is The

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History, Art, and Black Life in the United States

October 18, 2018November 3, 2018 Nathan Dize art, police brutality, police violence

On September 6, 2018, Amber Guyger killed Botham Shem Jean after breaking into his apartment, allegedly mistaking it for her

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State Surveillance of the Black Freedom Movement in Memphis

October 12, 2018October 17, 2018 Anthony C. Siracusa #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light On March 28, 1968, five thousand Memphians gathered

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“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Gender, Racial Violence, Resistance, Unseen Light

*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.

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