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Sun Ra Speaks About the Trial of Angela Davis

June 20, 2018July 2, 2018 Brian Lefresne Afrofuturism, Angela Davis, Black Panther Party, music

Anthony Reed, in his recent article on the grammar of utopia and freedom in the music of jazz performer Sun

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Cuban Revolution in America: A New Book on Cuba and the U.S. Left

June 8, 2018June 12, 2018 J. T. Roane black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Cuba, Racial Capitalism

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

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The 1967 Detroit Uprising and the Failure of the Criminal Justice System

June 6, 2018June 16, 2018 Say Burgin criminal justice system, Detroit, police brutality, police violence

Standing before judge Robert Columbo, a Detroiter made a standard defendant’s request to be released on his own recognizance. He

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Writing on Women and the Nation of Islam: An Author’s Response

May 25, 2018June 5, 2018 Ula Y. Taylor #PromiseofPatriarchy, Black women, Islam, Nation of Islam

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy  I am so very humbled by

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Centering Women in the Nation of Islam

May 23, 2018May 26, 2018 Ashley Farmer #PromiseofPatriarchy, archives, black politics, Black Power, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion, self-determination

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy  In her 2008 seminal essay, “Women

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