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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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Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century: An Interview with Jason Morgan Ward

November 14, 2016November 12, 2016 Stephen G. Hall black politics, Black women, Jim Crow, lynching, Mississippi, NAACP

In today’s guest post, Stephen G. Hall interviews  Jason Morgan Ward about his new book, Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and

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Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: An Interview with Gina Athena Ulysse

November 6, 2016January 2, 2017 Grace Sanders Johnson black feminism, black intellectual history, black lives matter, black protest, Haiti, Pan-Africanism

On October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew roared through Haiti’s southwest peninsula taking with it homes, centuries-old structures, and over 800

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Standing Rock, Flint, and the Color of Water

November 2, 2016November 1, 2016 Christopher F. Petrella democracy

Co-authored with Ameer Loggins While much attention has rightly been paid to those who are courageously protecting water resources and

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Managed Democracy and the Illusion of Politics

October 23, 2016October 22, 2016 Russell Rickford 2016 Presidential Election, democracy, electoral politics, Politics

Now that another sordid election cycle is almost behind us, the pundit class has begun to issue the customary pleas

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