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#SayHerName–Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Jenn M. Jackson Black women, police brutality, police violence

In today’s post, Jenn M. Jackson, writer and doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago,

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#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history

With summer quickly approaching, I have compiled a list of recommended new non-fiction books. All of these books, which were

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Black Bookstores and the Black Power Movement: An Interview with Paul Coates

June 5, 2018June 16, 2018 Joshua Clark Davis Baltimore, black nationalism, Philadelphia

In this post, blogger Joshua Clark Davis interviews activist Paul Coates–the father of author Ta-Nehisi Coates–on his life and early

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Diaspora as Praxis: Building Black Consciousness in Buenos Aires

May 28, 2018June 5, 2018 Keyanah Freeland Afro-Latin, Argentina, Latin America

Located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Crespo, the newly minted Espacio Malcolm–named after Malcolm X and also known

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Chocolate Cities: A New Book on the Black Map of American Life

May 26, 2018October 13, 2018 J. T. Roane black protest, blackness, culture, gentrification, Migration, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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