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Fugitivity, Refusal, and Visual Captivity: A Review of Tina Campt’s Listening to Images

May 27, 2017May 31, 2017 J. T. Roane Sandra Bland

I will never forget the unnerving feeling that washed over me when I first saw Sandra Bland’s mug shot circulating

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A Reverence for Hope: On Struggle, Faith, and Persistence

May 24, 2017May 30, 2017 Russell Rickford Racial Violence, violence

“Poetry is not a luxury.” — Audre Lorde America horrifies me. Its savagery and vulgarity. Its appetite for racial terror.

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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 History and Significance of Kente Cloth in the Black Diaspora

May 22, 2017May 24, 2017 James Padilioni Jr African Diaspora, education

This spring thousands of college students will march across commencement stages to receive their degrees. Many of these students will

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Translation for the Purposes of Indictment: Baron de Vastey in Colonial Jamaica

May 18, 2017May 22, 2017 Marlene L. Daut Caribbean, colonialism, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Jamaica, slavery

In February 1817, a man named Thomas Strafford returned to Kingston from the Kingdom of Hayti. Shortly afterward he would

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