Search Results for: Black Power

Braveheart for Black People: A Review of Birth of a Nation

October 25, 2016October 24, 2016 Alden Young Black film, Nate Parker, The Birth of a Nation

I was invited to see Nate Parker’s dramatic retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion right before it opened to the

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Black Republicans: A New Book on the Transformation of the GOP

October 23, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black politics, electoral politics

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics: An Interview with Amira Rose Davis

October 14, 2016October 13, 2016 Ashley Farmer Colin Kaepernick, Politics, sports

The country is now recognizing black athletes as protest leaders and the sports field as a viable space for resistance and

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Herstories: Writing Black Panther Women’s History

October 8, 2016October 7, 2016 Guest Poster Black Panther Party, black women scholars

Authored by Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, Tracye A. Matthews, Mary Phillips, and Robyn C. Spencer Angela LeBlanc-Ernest, Tracye A. Matthews, Mary Phillips, and

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Black Protest, White Backlash, and the History of Scientific Racism

October 5, 2016October 4, 2016 Guest Poster 2016 Presidential Election, Colin Kaepernick

Co-Authored by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer “Mainstream culture…defines threats to racial order as a form of madness that is,

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