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Black History in the Comics

June 27, 2016June 27, 2016 Paul Hébert Ta-Nehisi Coates

I have been reading comics my whole life, but it was only recently that I attended my first comics gathering,

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The Taming of Muhammad Ali

June 22, 2016June 21, 2016 Russell Rickford black nationalism, Muhammad Ali

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”- Steven Biko Muhammad Ali

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Orlando and the American Pathologies of Masculinity and Militarism

June 20, 2016June 15, 2016 Russell Rickford masculinity, violence

It is virtually forbidden–as an unpatriotic act–that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood. –James Baldwin The dominant

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A Mountainous Freedom

June 17, 2016December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #FreedomAAIHS, C.L.R. James, Haitian Revolution, marronage

Today, we continue our roundtable on Neil Roberts‘s Freedom as Marronage with a contribution from Minkah Makalani, associate professor in

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Why We Must Remember: Reflecting on the Charleston Massacre One Year Later

June 17, 2016June 16, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Charleston, Racial Violence, South Carolina, violence

On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina,

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