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Black Radicalism and the Right to Bail

December 6, 2021December 5, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky black radical tradition, race, W.E.B. Du Bois

New York’s LaGuardia Airport was abuzz. On December 9, 1951, two of the most well-known African American activists of the

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Confederate Memorials on Trial

November 29, 2021November 28, 2021 Lecia Brooks black lives matter, Resistance

Judge Timothy Walmsley’s recent ruling that the Confederate flag on defendant Travis McMichael’s truck is admissible in Ahmaud Arbery’s murder

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Comic Books, Black History, and Education

November 22, 2021November 21, 2021 Matthew Teutsch education, teaching

Instead of “Unjust to the South” stamped on the inside of our books, we have “promotes/ensures patriotic education” typed into

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How to Write About Nigeria

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 Bright Alozie africa, colonialism, Nigeria, Writing

**This essay is a work of satire, modeled after the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa.” Much like

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Floyd McKissick’s Soul City: An Interview with Thomas Healy

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 Joshua Clark Davis black politics, Civil Rights Movement, race

In 1969, Black Power advocate Floyd McKissick announced plans to develop Soul City, a multiracial community in rural Warren County,

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