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A Bibliography of Black Internationalism, Part II

June 18, 2018December 15, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black internationalism

The scholarship on Black internationalism has grown in leaps and bounds since my first reading list on the topic–originally published

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Langston Hughes on Film: An Interview with Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks

June 12, 2018June 16, 2018 Imani A. Wadud archives, art, black intellectual history, blackness, film, Harlem Renaissance, music

In today’s post, University of Kansas PhD Candidate, Imani A. Wadud, interviews Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks on their new

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History, Memory, and Racial Violence in America

June 8, 2018June 12, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Historical Memory, Historiography, Jim Crow, lynching, mass incarceration, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, South, white supremacy

In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) opened the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National

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Black Athletes, Anthem Protests, and the Spectacle of Patriotism

June 7, 2018June 16, 2018 Amira Rose Davis Activism, black protest, blackness, Politics, racism, sports, white supremacy

The new NFL anthem policy requires players to stand during the national anthem or face a fine. This decision is

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The 1967 Detroit Uprising and the Failure of the Criminal Justice System

June 6, 2018June 16, 2018 Say Burgin criminal justice system, Detroit, police brutality, police violence

Standing before judge Robert Columbo, a Detroiter made a standard defendant’s request to be released on his own recognizance. He

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