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There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism

October 28, 2019October 19, 2019 Yannick Marshall African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, black politics, black protest, Canada, colonialism, Resistance

I might be made to agree with Erna Paris that using the term “genocide” in reference to Canada’s treatment of indigenous populations

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Creating Digital Space for Black Scholarship

October 17, 2019October 9, 2019 Black Book Interactive Project Scholars archives, black intellectual history, digital media, education, literature

This year, within a week, we lost two geniuses: Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall. But at least their words circulate,

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A Complicitous Critique: Reading Dwayne McDuffie’s ‘Icon’ in the Wake of ‘The Death of Superman’

October 10, 2019October 6, 2019 Phillip L. Cunningham #MilestoneMedia, Black women, comic books, comics, race

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. The year 1993 proved a

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Online Forum: Milestone Media Comics

October 1, 2019October 11, 2019 AAIHS Editors #MilestoneMedia, aaihs

October 7–11, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum exploring the Black-owned

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“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle

August 2, 2019July 28, 2019 Dan Berger Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, black protest, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, Politics, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, Social Movements

Though the United States has colonized Puerto Rico since 1898, when the country took the island as booty in the

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