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Ramp Your Voice: An Interview with Vilissa Thompson

March 18, 2017April 3, 2018 Trimiko Melancon Activism, Black women, disability, diversity

This month I interviewed Vilissa Thompson about her work as the founder and CEO of Ramp Your Voice!, an organization that promotes

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The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio

March 17, 2017March 20, 2017 Nikki Taylor Gender, rape, sexuality, slavery

This is an excerpt from the fourth chapter of Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on

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Race, Belonging, and Unconditional White Amnesty

March 15, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Donald Trump, Post-Civil War, reconstruction, white supremacy

At a raucous 2016 campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, then-candidate Donald Trump outlined his plan to curb “illegal immigration” and

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Radicalizing the Resistance in the Age of Trump

March 14, 2017March 17, 2017 Russell Rickford democracy, Donald Trump, Immigration, Politics, Resistance, Trumpism

Who knew an act of civic engagement could produce such exhilaration and ambivalence? A few weeks ago I attended a

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The Rise of Global Conservatism and Resistance in the Age of Trump

March 13, 2017March 16, 2017 Jaimee A. Swift Donald Trump, Politics, racism, Trumpism

The travel ban on Muslims and refugees. Withdrawal of federal protections for transgender students. The reinstatement of the global gag

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