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British Culpability in the Trading and Enslavement of Africans

April 12, 2018April 24, 2018 Sasha Turner Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, reparations, slave trade, slavery

“In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40 per cent of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in

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On Borders and the Matters of Black Life: A Review of “Seven Seconds”

April 11, 2018April 30, 2018 J. T. Roane film, Jim Crow, police brutality, police violence, Visual Culture

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* In the recently released Netflix drama, Seven Seconds, viewers are confronted with a dramatization of

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“Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika

April 10, 2018April 30, 2018 Dan Berger black nationalism, Black radicalism, self-determination

An impressive assortment of Black radicals gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence. It was not Philadelphia 1776, of course,

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Bodyminds Reimagined: A New Book on Disability, Race, and Gender

April 9, 2018April 13, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Afrofuturism, disability

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Martin Luther King Jr. and the Grassroots Struggle in Memphis

April 6, 2018April 13, 2018 Charles W. McKinney Activism, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, MLK and American Cities

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. People from around the world

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