Search Results for: Civil War

The Distinction Between Slavery and Race in U.S. History

November 27, 2016November 25, 2016 Patrick Rael Constitution, Electoral College

The history of the Electoral College is receiving a lot of attention. Pieces like this one, which explores “the electoral

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Afro-Colombians and the Peace Agreement in Colombia

November 23, 2016November 22, 2016 Yesenia Barragan Colombia

On the evening of October 2, 2016, the whole world was in absolute shock. The Colombian people rejected a historic

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Making Black Los Angeles: A New Book on Class, Gender, and Community

November 21, 2016November 19, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Los Angeles

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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Prison Abolition Syllabus

November 20, 2016September 4, 2018 Guest Poster mass incarceration

On September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, prisoners from at least twenty-one states began striking

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“Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson Fifteenth Amendment, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of

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