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Black Male Genius and the Distortion of Black History

May 17, 2018May 22, 2018 Nicole Jackson Black women, hip hop, music, slavery

In the aftermath of Kanye West’s recent media blitz, there was considerable media attention paid to his parroting and amplifying

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Black Radical Silence on Palestine

May 16, 2018May 22, 2018 Alaina Morgan Anticolonialism, black lives matter, Black Panther Party, colonialism, Malcolm X, violence

In the months leading up to the annual Palestinian Land Day commemoration on March 30, 2018, Palestinian activists living in

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Louise Thompson Patterson and Black Radical Politics

May 12, 2018May 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women

On September 16, 1984, exactly one week after Louise Thompson Patterson turned eighty-three years old, an extravaganza was held in

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“Left Exposed to View!”: Black Women and Sexualized Violence

May 11, 2018May 15, 2018 Trimiko Melancon lynching, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, Resistance, sexual violence

In May 1962, Malcolm X delivered a commanding speech with his now infamous lines regarding the positionality of Black women:

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Black Panther: A Call to Ethiopia

May 5, 2018May 13, 2018 Rachel Gillett #BlackPanther, African Diaspora, film, Pan-Africanism, Resistance

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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