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Sitting Shiva: Mourning and Anger in Trump’s America

November 15, 2016November 14, 2016 Patrick Rael freedom

I’ve spent most of my life now studying my country’s history, and in particular the ways it has so consistently,

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“Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson Fifteenth Amendment, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of

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Conjuring the Black Radical Tradition

November 11, 2016December 30, 2016 Austin McCoy #BlackMarxism, Angela Davis, Black Marxism, black radical tradition

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Cedric Robinson’s book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical

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“The Negation of the Negation in the World System”: Introducing Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism

November 7, 2016November 20, 2016 Paul Hébert #BlackMarxism, #CedricRobinson, Black Marxism, black radical tradition, Cedric Robinson, Racial Capitalism

This is the first day of our roundtable on Cedric Robinson’s book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical

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Implicit Bias and American History

November 7, 2016November 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Historiography

In the first presidential debate, Lester Holt asked Hilary Clinton to expand on prior comments regarding police violence: “Do you

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