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50 Years Since Detroit’s Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement

July 19, 2018July 26, 2018 Duncan Tarr Activism, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, capitalism

On July 8, 1968, a group of Black autoworkers led a wildcat strike that partially shut down Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge

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Gender and the Politics of Anti-Black State Violence

July 17, 2018July 20, 2018 Austin McCoy black politics, black protest, Black women, police brutality, police violence

In the early hours of November 10, 2014, fifty-four-year-old Victor Stephens called the Ann Arbor Police Department to report a

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The National Council of Negro Women and the Black Freedom Struggle

July 17, 2018July 20, 2018 Dan Berger Activism, Black women, Resistance

When Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore for the Senate seat previously occupied by Attorney General and career racist Jeff Sessions

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African Americans and the Congo: An Interview with Ira Dworkin

July 16, 2018July 20, 2018 Marius Kothor African Diaspora, imperialism, Pan-Africanism, Patrice Lumumba

In today’s post, Marius Kothor, a PhD student in the Department of History at Yale University, interviews Ira Dworkin on his new

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Reflections on Sandra Bland on the 3rd Anniversary of Her Death

July 13, 2018July 16, 2018 Toniesha Taylor #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, digital media, Historical Memory, police brutality, police violence, Sandra Bland

This post is part of our online forum in honor of Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The forum includes historical

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