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Confronting School Choice, Part I: The NAACP’s Charter Moratorium and the Backlash

December 5, 2016December 4, 2016 Lindsey E. Jones civil rights, education reform

On October 15, 2016, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced that its Board of Directors

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The Audacity of “Nope”: Why a Trump Presidency Is No Surprise

December 5, 2016March 17, 2017 Trimiko Melancon 2016 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, W.E.B. Du Bois

After the 2008 election of Barack H. Obama, the 44th President of the United States, it became customary for some

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On Authoritarianism and Civilization

December 4, 2016December 2, 2016 Neil Roberts 2016 Presidential Election, Donald Trump, marronage

This piece was originally published on Public Seminar and is reprinted here with permission. In 1890 the young W.E.B. Du

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Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice: An Interview with Sonia Lee

December 3, 2016December 1, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Activism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, poverty, Puerto Rican history

With the recent election of Donald Trump and the very public hate speech and violence against people of color that

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A Bandung Conference in Harlem: The Meaning of Castro’s Visit Uptown

December 1, 2016November 30, 2016 Garrett Felber Anticolonialism, Cuba, Malcolm X, New York

Since Fidel Castro passed away last Friday, news coverage has been predictably polarizing: from celebrating his commitment to anticolonial liberation

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