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Black Queer Theater as Love Praxis: An Interview with Jeremy O’Brian

May 28, 2019May 25, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Black church, black feminism, black politics, interview, LGBT, religion, theater

In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Jeremy O’Brian who is currently a Teaching Fellow at The New School’s

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Black Feminist Alchemy, Reproductive Justice, and the Carceral State

May 27, 2019May 25, 2019 Dan Berger black feminism, carceral state, mass incarceration, Prison Abolition, reproductive justice

In the poem “Revolution is One Form of Social Change,” Audre Lorde describes patriarchy as the foundation of the inequality

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Poll Power: A New Book about the Voter Education Project

May 17, 2019May 7, 2019 J. T. Roane civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, South, voting

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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‘Dockworker Power’: Transnational Struggles for Justice

May 16, 2019May 6, 2019 Ralph Callebert Activism, black internationalism, black protest, labor, race, Racial Capitalism, Resistance, South Africa

Dockworkers are a favorite subject for many labor historians—including myself. Historically, they have proven themselves reliably radical and strike-prone, and

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Black Women’s Fugitivity in Colonial America

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Black women, marronage, Resistance, slavery

Lucia, a fourteen-year-old young girl transported to the Georgia Lowcountry during the 1760s, brought with her a deft understanding of

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