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Fire in Babylon and The Racial Politics of West Indian Cricket

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 Paul Hébert black internationalism, C.L.R. James, Caribbean

“What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” asked C.L.R. James in Beyond a Boundary, his 1962 study

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Marable’s Malcolm: A Revisitation

May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 Russell Rickford black intellectual history, black nationalism, Malcolm X, Manning Marable

Writing about Malcolm X can feel like stepping into a whirlpool. The further one ventures beneath the currents, the more

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Martin Sostre and the Fight against Solitary Confinement

May 16, 2016January 1, 2017 Garrett Felber

In the summer of 2015, President Barack Obama finally broke the silence on the use of solitary confinement, calling for

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We Are Equal African Peoples

April 28, 2016April 28, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreAnAfricanPeople, Pan-Africanism

This is the fourth day of our roundtable on Russell Rickford’s book, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black

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All the Women: Continuing Legacies

April 16, 2016April 15, 2016 Janell Hobson

I had the honor of moderating a panel featuring legendary black feminist Barbara Smith at this year’s Underground Railroad Conference

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