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Welfare Reform Syllabus

August 24, 2016August 22, 2016 Guest Poster poverty

This syllabus was originally published on the website of the Anna Julia Cooper Center and is reprinted here with permission.

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Brother to Brother: An Open Letter to Nate Parker

August 22, 2016August 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi black radical tradition, Nat Turner, rape

Dear Brother Nate: I write to you as my brother because I cannot think of anything else to call you

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What’s in a List?: Early African Americans in an Age of Consumer Revolution

August 21, 2016August 20, 2016 Jared Hardesty

As many scholars of early African American life can attest, one of the most vexing aspects of doing research is

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Nate Parker, Rape Culture, and Toxic Masculinity

August 20, 2016August 20, 2016 Deirdre Cooper Owens Nat Turner, Nate Parker, rape

Over the past seventy-two hours, the Internet has been abuzz over Nate Parker’s involvement in a seventeen-year-old rape case.  Journalists

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#SandraBland Soundtrack

August 19, 2016August 15, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere Sandra Bland

My post last month used visual art as a way to mark the one-year anniversary of Sandra Bland’s death (see

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