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Vance Joseph and the State of Black Coaches in the NFL

January 20, 2017January 22, 2017 Justin Gomer sports

The Denver Broncos recently hired Vance Joseph to fill their head coaching vacancy. Shortly thereafter, the Los Angeles Chargers named Anthony

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Why We Need James and Grace Lee Boggs Now

January 19, 2017January 22, 2017 Garrett Felber Activism, black intellectual history, black protest

In 2011, I sat in the living room of Grace Lee Boggs at 3061 Field Street, a space Bill Strickland affectionately

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False Choices: Identity Politics and Lessons from the Left

January 18, 2017January 20, 2017 Victoria Wolcott Activism, black politics, black protest

Recently my academic-laden social media feeds have been filling up with denouncements of identity politics, or occasionally denouncements of those

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Race, Class, and Television: A First Look at Brazil’s Dystopic Drama 3%

January 18, 2017January 20, 2017 Greg Childs Afro-Brazilians, Afrofuturism, Brazil

3% is Netflix’s latest original series ordered up from Latin America, and the first from Brazil. Set in a dystopic

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Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality

January 17, 2017January 19, 2017 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queers, sexuality

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.

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