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Black Catholic Women are Forgotten Prophets of American Democracy

March 2, 2021March 1, 2021 Shannen Dee Williams

On Jan. 6, a mostly White mob attacked the nation’s Capitol in a violent attempt to overturn the election of

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Black and Latinx LGBTQ Communities: An Author Interview with Siobhan Brooks

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Tyler Parry black, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Gender, intersectionality, Latino/a, LGBT, religion, sexual violence, sexuality, trans identity, violence

In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Siobhan Brooks on her new book Everyday Violence against Black and

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Blackness, Dehumanized: A Black Feminist Analysis of ‘Bridgerton’

February 2, 2021February 21, 2021 Shaun Armstead black feminism, blackness, popular culture, race, racism, Visual Culture

Since its release on Christmas Day, Bridgerton has attracted international attention for its racial cosmopolitan reenactment of early nineteenth-century Britain.

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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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