Search Results for: abolition

Black Power and Anti-Carceral State Infrastructure

July 12, 2021July 10, 2021 Joshua L. Crutchfield black lives matter, Black Power, Black radicalism, Black women

In 1991, Black radical activist Safiya Bukhari spoke to an audience and reflected on her decision to join the Harlem

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Black Health Care, Black Art: A Texas Perspective

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Celeste Henery education, racism, teaching, white supremacy

Galveston, Texas, may best be remembered as the provenance of Juneteenth. However, in the universe of Black history, the island

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An Interview with Curator Kelli Morgan

July 7, 2021July 6, 2021 Julia Bernier African American Art, Art History, black feminism, black intellectual history, Black women

        In today’s post, Julia Wallace Bernier, a regular contributor to Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. Kelli Morgan,

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Marxism and Black Liberation: The Work of Raya Dunayevskaya

July 5, 2021July 4, 2021 Eugene Gogol black intellectual history, black radical tradition

Marxism, which played a role in Black Liberation ideas in the decades immediately after the Russian Revolution, and again during

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The Reconstruction Origins of Black Wall Street

June 1, 2021May 30, 2021 Alexandra E. Stern archives, black protest, race, Resistance, Tulsa

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre targeted and destroyed the city’s prosperous Greenwood District, home to a vibrant economy of Black-owned businesses that

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