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Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice: An Interview with Sonia Lee

December 3, 2016December 1, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Activism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, poverty, Puerto Rican history

With the recent election of Donald Trump and the very public hate speech and violence against people of color that

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Trump’s America Was Never a Democracy

November 28, 2016November 28, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount democracy, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Politics

History is rarely written in advance. Yet on January 20, 2017 we will likely witness the largest general strike and

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Afro-Colombians and the Peace Agreement in Colombia

November 23, 2016November 22, 2016 Yesenia Barragan Colombia

On the evening of October 2, 2016, the whole world was in absolute shock. The Colombian people rejected a historic

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Prison Abolition Syllabus

November 20, 2016September 4, 2018 Guest Poster mass incarceration

On September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, prisoners from at least twenty-one states began striking

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Caribbean Literature, Jewishness, and Global Holocaust Memory

November 18, 2016November 14, 2016 Sarah Phillips Casteel trauma

At the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, visitors can read responses to the museum from around the world. By pressing

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