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Colorism as Racism: Garvey, Du Bois and the Other Color Line

May 24, 2017May 26, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Colorism, Marcus Garvey, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

One hundred years ago this month, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and thirteen associates gathered in a Harlem basement to found the

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The Black Freedom Struggle, Healthcare Activism, and the Affordable Care Act

March 5, 2017March 8, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

At a recent press conference President Donald Trump remarked, “nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated.” This statement was

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Donald Trump’s Old Deal for Black America

January 29, 2017February 1, 2017 Jessica Ann Levy capitalism, Donald Trump, Politics, presidents, racism

On January 20, 2017, the world watched—many in horror—as Donald Trump was officially sworn in as the forty-fifth president of

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Black-Owned Bookstores: Anchors of the Black Power Movement

January 28, 2017January 30, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis black nationalism, black politics, Pan-Africanism

In the summer of 1968, veteran members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) opened a shop in Washington, D.C.,

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O.J. Simpson, Ex-Colored Man

June 29, 2016June 28, 2016 Brandon Byrd

What would it mean to live beyond the color line? To live unencumbered by race; by blackness? Black novelists have

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