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Law Enforcement’s Double Standards for Black Radical Activists

February 1, 2021January 30, 2021 Denise Lynn Activism, black radical tradition, Black women, Resistance

Many Americans were appalled to watch the Donald Trump inspired coup attempt against Congress. That Trump instigated his followers and

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Haiti and Black Internationalism in the Twenty-First Century

December 9, 2020January 11, 2021 Shaun Armstead #TheBlackRepublic, black internationalism, Black political thought, Haiti

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. African Americans’ tenuous relationship to American

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Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism, civil rights, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

As the recent election has shown, anti-communism is alive and well in the United States. Donald Trump and other conservatives

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Black Radical Activists and the Dangers of the Police State

November 11, 2020November 9, 2020 Denise Lynn Black political thought, black politics, class, Communism, police brutality, police violence, policing, prisons, race, Racial Capitalism, racism

During recent anti-police brutality protests and marches across the United States, American police forces have displayed the very behavior that

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The Radical and Transnational Roots of Black History Month in Britain

October 7, 2020October 4, 2020 E. James West African Diaspora, black internationalism, black protest, civil rights

In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, announced

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