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Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 Russell Rickford #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Blood Sugar: A New Book on Food Justice in Black America

January 25, 2017January 27, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi capitalism, Caribbean, Racial Capitalism, racism

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

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“Reflections Unheard”: A New Film on Black Women and Civil Rights

January 19, 2017March 14, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, Black women, film series

This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History

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Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality

January 17, 2017January 19, 2017 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queers, sexuality

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.

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Global Black Culture: Celebrating Americanness at Festac 77

January 13, 2017May 30, 2017 Suzanne Enzerink culture, music

This month marks the anniversary of a watershed moment in global black culture and knowledge production. In January 1977, over

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