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Realism and Melodrama in Stevedore

July 16, 2020July 20, 2020 Kristen Wright #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalBlackTheatre, race, Racial Violence

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical

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Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi: Seeing Anne’s Struggles as Our Own

July 10, 2020July 5, 2020 Adele Norris black protest, blackness, Civil Rights Movement, youth

It’s been over 50 years since Anne Moody published Coming of Age in Mississippi in 1968. The autobiography chronicles Anne’s life

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Loop/Lapse/Loss: Untimely Dispatches from a Sea of Fragments

July 9, 2020July 5, 2020 John Murillo III #NewBlackSurrealisms, blackness, police violence, policing, race, Racial Violence, racism, Sandra Bland, white supremacy

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. I do not

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On “Looting” in an Apartheid State

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Navid Farnia anti-capitalism, Black radicalism, police violence

“In planning the direction and form that MK [umKhonto we Sizwe] would take, we considered four types of violent activities:

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Losing Willie McGee

July 6, 2020July 5, 2020 Denise Lynn Politics, racism, white supremacy

The toll a failed political campaign takes on an individual can be devastating, none more so than when a life

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