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Black Girls, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Self-Defense

September 13, 2016September 11, 2016 Lindsey E. Jones carceral state, mass incarceration

The case of Bresha Meadows, an African American teenage girl in Ohio, is a sad commentary on the failure of

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This Vast Southern Empire: A New Book on Slaveholders and U.S. Foreign Policy

September 12, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Deep South, empire, slavery

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new

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Black Women Hustling off The Grid: An Author’s Response

September 10, 2016September 4, 2016 LaShawn Harris Black women, Harlem, New York

Today is the final day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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Shifting Ground: Writing Working-Class Black Women’s History from Below

September 8, 2016September 3, 2016 Talitha LeFlouria Black women, Harlem, New York

Today is the fourth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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The Surprising Role of Race in the History of Gubernatorial Impeachment

August 31, 2016August 31, 2016 Patrick Rael reconstruction

Once again, Maine Governor Paul LePage is in trouble, and race is at the heart of the matter.  The Governor’s

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