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FBI Harassment of Black Families

November 16, 2021November 15, 2021 Denise Lynn black intellectual history, Black radicalism, police violence

American anticommunism has always been an anti-democratic movement that seeks to silence radical voices. At its core, anti-communism has been

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Black Atlantic Journeys in the Digital

November 2, 2021November 4, 2021 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackAtlantics, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” “What would it mean to read diaspora spatially? How might

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Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac

October 28, 2021October 26, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky Alphaeus Hunton, Anti-Communism, Black Veterans, Communism, Hugh Mulzac, Labor Movement, Marian Anderson, McCarthyism, Socialism, WWII

  It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate

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Hair Discrimination, Anti-Black Racism, and Resistance

October 26, 2021October 25, 2021 Adele N. Norris Gender, race

This is the second of a two-part series about discrimination and Black hair. For part one, click here.  The politics

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Hair Discrimination and Global Politics of Anti-Blackness, Part 1

October 19, 2021October 18, 2021 Adele Norris black feminism, black hair, black identity, Black Power, Black women, black youth

  Recent cases of Black hair/style regulation and punishment in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States reveal

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