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Black Republicans: A New Book on the Transformation of the GOP

October 23, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black politics, electoral politics

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th

October 22, 2016July 12, 2017 Dan Berger carceral state

When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause

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Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi racism

“Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black minds and legally exclude their

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Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics: An Interview with Amira Rose Davis

October 14, 2016October 13, 2016 Ashley Farmer Colin Kaepernick, Politics, sports

The country is now recognizing black athletes as protest leaders and the sports field as a viable space for resistance and

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Herstories: Writing Black Panther Women’s History

October 8, 2016October 7, 2016 Guest Poster Black Panther Party, black women scholars

Authored by Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, Tracye A. Matthews, Mary Phillips, and Robyn C. Spencer Angela LeBlanc-Ernest, Tracye A. Matthews, Mary Phillips, and

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