What to the Black Academic is the 4th of July?
July 4 is not normally a day that we associate with black history. The “we” here refers both to the
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Top Five in Bad Times (+ Bonus Track)
This has been an especially difficult few weeks for those with any investment in social justice, black families and black
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Ida B. Wells, Police Violence, and the Legacy of Lynching
The recent police shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota bring to the surface, yet again,
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Remembering Muhammad Ali: Asiatic Black Man
With the passing of Muhammad Ali – boxing’s greatest pugilist, most electric persona, and fiercest champion for racial justice –
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O.J. Simpson, Ex-Colored Man
What would it mean to live beyond the color line? To live unencumbered by race; by blackness? Black novelists have
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