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Black-Jewish Nostalgia and Black Lives Matter

November 7, 2015 Chris Cameron

The following guest post was written by David Weinfeld. He is a sessional instructor at the Centre for the Study

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“The Power and Importance of Ideas:” Grace Lee Boggs’s Revolutionary Vision

October 18, 2015October 18, 2015 Ashley Farmer

In the opening lines of her autobiography, Living for Change, Grace Lee Boggs remarked: “Had I not been born female

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Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica

October 12, 2015October 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black soldiers, Caribbean, primary source, slavery

One evening, on a road in Jamaica, a soldier belonging to the “Mulatto Company” made his evening rounds. He came

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Black. Intellectual. Historian.

August 31, 2015September 2, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount T. Thomas Fortune, Ta-Nehisi Coates

  [CLICK IMAGES FOR HIGHER RESOLUTION] Last week I moved to Harlem.  On Sunday I spent the day with Jean

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Fighting like Fannie Lou: On Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, and the Democratic Process

August 17, 2015August 19, 2015 Ashley Farmer

On August 8th, 2015, Black Lives Matter “shut down” a Bernie Sanders presidential campaign event in Seattle, Washington. Taking the

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