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A Critique of Black Capitalism in an American Horror Film

October 22, 2024October 20, 2024 Kaela Buchanan and Yasmine Guy popular culture, race, Racial Capitalism

The film, Candyman (1992), is a Blaxploitation film, a reactional Black revenge story that seeks to challenge white racism, privilege,

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Panthers, Communists, Black Nationalists, and Liberals in Southern California

October 16, 2024October 13, 2024 Gerald Horne Black Power, Black Power Movement, UrbanRebellions

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s The Urban Rebellions of the 1960s

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The Troubled History of Medical Harm to Black Women

October 8, 2024October 6, 2024 Savannah Flanagan Black women, medical racism, medicine, motherhood, slavery

In 1805, a Black woman known in the historical record as Pleasant, took a deep breath and pushed her son

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African Americans and the First Black Republic

September 25, 2024September 21, 2024 Sherri V. Cummings black protest, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

It is difficult to talk about Haiti. For the past two months the island nation has been mired in violence

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Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora

September 24, 2024September 21, 2024 Christina Proenza-Coles Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism

African resistance to American slavery originated at the moment African slavery in the Americas began. The first recorded enslaved Africans

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