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Against Multiracial Authoritarianism

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 Dan Berger black politics, black protest, civil rights, nation, Politics, race, white supremacy

Concluding her stunning essay on the racist and sexist representations of Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas as he alighted

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The Common Wind of the African Diaspora

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 Kevin Dawson academia, academic publishing, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, race, Resistance, slavery

Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is one of the academy’s worst-kept secrets.

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From Hashtag Activist to Street Protester: An Interview with Bree Newsome Bass

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt #BlackOrganizingToday, Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black women, Resistance

This post is part of our Black Organizing Today Series. This series, edited by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, consists of interviews

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“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

June 24, 2019June 22, 2019 Mark Anthony Neal Black film, black politics, film series, hip hop, music, police brutality, race, Resistance, women in film

“1989, a number, another summer, sound of the funky drummer” —Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” The scene may be the

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Towards an Antifascist Pedagogy

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 Guy Emerson Mount antifascism, pedagogy, racism, Resistance, South

On February 19th, 2019 an interracial group of socialists gathered at a local coffee shop in rural Alabama. The coffee

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