Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

From Police Power to Police Practice

August 18, 2022August 12, 2022 DeAnza A. Cook #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Police, prisons

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us The United States of

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The Long Debate Over Critical Race Theory

August 12, 2022August 2, 2022 Lisa A. Monroe black intellectual history, education, race

“Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education?” is a question on

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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Ecologies of Resistance: The Underground Railroad Ethnobotany Project

June 14, 2022June 13, 2022 Tony N. VanWinkle Resistance, slavery

“Gone are the century-old definitions of the Underground Railroad dominated by images of shivering, frightened fugitive slaves. Fading away are

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Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives

June 2, 2022June 1, 2022 K. T. Ewing Alberta Hunter, biography, Blues, Chicago, Memphis, Methodology

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into

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