Search Results for: Movement for Black Lives

How State Surveillance Undermines Black Freedom Movements

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Nishani Frazier Black Power, carceral state, Malcolm X

Ray Wood was known to me only in family lore I’d forgotten. CORE scholar L. E. J. Rachell and James

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Black Women Have Shaped Politics in Boston for Centuries

March 4, 2021March 3, 2021 Kabria Baumgartner

Kim Janey will probably vacate her position as president of the Boston City Council to become the city’s acting mayor.

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Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

February 26, 2021February 21, 2021 Robert D. Taber African Diaspora, archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, slave trade, slavery

Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective

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Black and Latinx LGBTQ Communities: An Author Interview with Siobhan Brooks

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Tyler Parry black, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Gender, intersectionality, Latino/a, LGBT, religion, sexual violence, sexuality, trans identity, violence

In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Siobhan Brooks on her new book Everyday Violence against Black and

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Law Enforcement’s Double Standards for Black Radical Activists

February 1, 2021January 30, 2021 Denise Lynn Activism, black radical tradition, Black women, Resistance

Many Americans were appalled to watch the Donald Trump inspired coup attempt against Congress. That Trump instigated his followers and

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