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A Global Vision for Black Lives

September 16, 2016May 20, 2017 Gerald Horne #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, Barack Obama, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, imperialism, M4BL

“Those truly interested in progress and liberation on these shores must not neglect our allies in the international community” As

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Reflections of a Black Presidency

July 16, 2016July 15, 2016 Janell Hobson Barack Obama, black lives matter, police brutality

And although it seems heaven sent We ain’t ready, to see a black President, uhh It ain’t a secret don’t

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What to the Black Academic is the 4th of July?

July 15, 2016July 14, 2016 Greg Childs Frederick Douglass, police brutality, police violence

July 4 is not normally a day that we associate with black history. The “we” here refers both to the

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Remembering Phillis Wheatley

June 26, 2016June 25, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Black women, Phillis Wheatley

In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,

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Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a Racist Idea

June 21, 2016June 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi trauma

For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,

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