Search Results for: Black Power

Rastafarians and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization

October 3, 2018October 8, 2018 Michael Barnett African Diaspora, black internationalism, Black Power, Pan-Africanism

Monique Bedasse’s Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization makes a commendable and sterling contribution to the body

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Documentaries for Teaching African American History since 1865

September 17, 2018September 18, 2018 Joshua Clark Davis Black film, film, Jim Crow

Let’s face it: some students do almost no reading in our classes. But even if they seem to rarely crack

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‘Stoolpigeons’ and the Treacherous Terrain of Freedom Fighting

September 13, 2018September 16, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black radicalism

On May 15, 2018, Newsweek published a story entitled, “CIA Reveals Name of Former Spy in JFK Files—And He’s Still

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Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0

September 8, 2018September 18, 2018 Guest Poster Political Prisoners, Prison Abolition, prisons

Even in prison, rebellions are contagious. In 2016, a national prison strike led us to compile the Prison Abolition Syllabus on

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Remembering James Cone: Kind and Fierce Iconoclast

September 6, 2018September 8, 2018 Lilian Calles Barger black politics, Black Power, freedom, James Cone Forum, liberation theology, Philosophy, religion

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. The late theologian James Cone

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