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“Why Aren’t Black People More Optimistic?”

April 13, 2018April 24, 2018 Trimiko Melancon Black film, police brutality, white supremacy

In a 1968 interview, television personality Dick Cavett asked James Baldwin, renowned author-activist, what many white Americans at that time

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On Borders and the Matters of Black Life: A Review of “Seven Seconds”

April 11, 2018April 30, 2018 J. T. Roane film, Jim Crow, police brutality, police violence, Visual Culture

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* In the recently released Netflix drama, Seven Seconds, viewers are confronted with a dramatization of

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A Primary Moral Position: Black Feminism and Self-Possession

March 30, 2018April 2, 2018 Chris Lebron Activism, black feminism, black lives matter, black radical tradition, Gender

*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making of Black Lives Matter:

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Is Equality Enough?: Black Feminist Views of Justice

March 29, 2018April 2, 2018 Deva Woodly Activism, black lives matter, police brutality, police violence, Social Movements

*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making

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Blackness, Gender, and the Non-normative

March 28, 2018April 2, 2018 Marquis Bey black lives matter, black radical tradition, Gender, sexuality

*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making of Black Lives Matter:

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