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What to the Black Academic is the 4th of July?

July 15, 2016July 14, 2016 Greg Childs Frederick Douglass, police brutality, police violence

July 4 is not normally a day that we associate with black history. The “we” here refers both to the

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“Americans Have Carried American Hatred”: Black Intellectuals, Imperialism and Policing

July 14, 2016July 13, 2016 Brandon Byrd Haiti, imperialism, policing

“Don’t you see no connection between atom-bomb-dropping in Japan and shin-kicking in Virginia?” asked Simple. “No direct connection,” I said.

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Black Women Organize for the Future of Pan-Africanism: the Sixth Pan-African Congress

July 3, 2016July 2, 2016 Ashley Farmer #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Pan-Africanism

*This is the first of a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by blogger Keisha N. Blain.

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Remembering Muhammad Ali: Asiatic Black Man

July 1, 2016July 1, 2016 Garrett Felber black nationalism, Muhammad Ali, Nation of Islam

With the passing of Muhammad Ali – boxing’s greatest pugilist, most electric persona, and fiercest champion for racial justice –

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Black History in the Comics

June 27, 2016June 27, 2016 Paul Hébert Ta-Nehisi Coates

I have been reading comics my whole life, but it was only recently that I attended my first comics gathering,

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