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The Supreme Court and Racial Inequality

August 25, 2022August 17, 2022 Alani Golanski 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, law, Supreme Court, Voting Rights

  The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth

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The History of Sexual Policing

August 19, 2022August 12, 2022 Charlotte Rosen #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Police, prisons, sexual violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us A few years back,

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The Long Debate Over Critical Race Theory

August 12, 2022August 2, 2022 Lisa A. Monroe black intellectual history, education, race

“Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education?” is a question on

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Utopia in Dark Times

August 10, 2022August 2, 2022 Victoria W. Wolcott race, religion

In this turbulent historical moment, I find myself often reflecting on Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower . Butler

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Organizing for Reproductive Justice: An Interview with Barbara Smith

August 8, 2022August 1, 2022 Joseph R. Fitzgerald #ReproductiveRights, Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black radicalism, Black women, reproductive justice

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In today’s post, Barbara Smith is interviewed

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