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The 1967 MLK and the Politics of Transcendence

January 21, 2017January 10, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black politics, Martin Luther King Jr.

I am not thinking about Donald Trump today. I am still hungover from MLK Day. I am still celebrating the

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Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality

January 17, 2017January 19, 2017 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queers, sexuality

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.

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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 3

January 11, 2017January 15, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt criminal justice system, South, violence

This essay is Part Three of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

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Prophets and Religious Radicals: An Interview with Albert Raboteau

January 2, 2017January 4, 2017 Chris Cameron Martin Luther King Jr.

This month I had the opportunity to interview Albert J. Raboteau about his new book, American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals

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Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas

December 23, 2016April 21, 2017 Yesenia Barragan Christmas, Colombia, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman

It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in

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