Search Results for: Black Lives Matter

Diaspora as Praxis: Building Black Consciousness in Buenos Aires

May 28, 2018June 5, 2018 Keyanah Freeland Afro-Latin, Argentina, Latin America

Located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Crespo, the newly minted Espacio Malcolm–named after Malcolm X and also known

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Chocolate Cities: A New Book on the Black Map of American Life

May 26, 2018October 13, 2018 J. T. Roane black protest, blackness, culture, gentrification, Migration, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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“Left Exposed to View!”: Black Women and Sexualized Violence

May 11, 2018May 15, 2018 Trimiko Melancon lynching, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, Resistance, sexual violence

In May 1962, Malcolm X delivered a commanding speech with his now infamous lines regarding the positionality of Black women:

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Black Lives, Policing, and Historical Memory

May 2, 2018May 5, 2018 Samantha Bryant black lives matter, police brutality, police violence, Resistance

On April 8, 2018, Danville police responded to a domestic disturbance between a man and a woman. The woman accused

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Black Power, Collectivism, and the Politics of the Imprisoned

April 24, 2018April 28, 2018 Angela LeBlanc-Ernest #RemakingBlackPower, Black Panther Party, Black Power, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Historian Ashley D. Farmer’s characterization of Black Women’s

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