Search Results for: Civil War

Fighting “Stop-and-Frisk” Policing from Rockefeller to Trump

September 27, 2016September 27, 2016 Garrett Felber Donald Trump, police violence

In the latest of Donald Trump’s string of attempts to “court” black voters (clearly aimed at courting his lily-white voter

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Black Journalist T. Thomas Fortune Prophetically Predicts Today’s Political Climate

September 24, 2016September 21, 2016 Shawn Leigh Alexander black politics, Donald Trump, Politics, T. Thomas Fortune, Trumpism

Civil rights activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune was one of the most eloquent and instrumental voices of black America

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Does Fear of Black Men Satisfy the “Objective Reasonableness” Standard?

September 22, 2016September 21, 2016 Brian Purnell police brutality, police violence

Another video. Another police shooting. Another Black person’s body dead on an American road. Every person is innocent until proven

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NMAAHC and the Internationalism of African American History

September 21, 2016March 10, 2019 Skyler Gordon

This Saturday, on September 24, 2016, the National Mall will be filled with black church groups and middle school class

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The Radical Democracy of the Movement for Black Lives

September 18, 2016September 13, 2016 Peniel Joseph #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL

“Black Lives Matter has cast a strobe-light on contemporary myths of racial progress, arguing correctly that the criminal justice system

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