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The Centrality of Whiteness in Modern Sports

September 25, 2019September 17, 2019 Jermaine Scott culture, Gender, masculinity, race, sports, white supremacy

Modern sport is racial. This statement has become obvious with the recent protests in the NFL, NBA, and WNBA around

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A Black Woman Communist Candidate: Charlene Mitchell’s 1968 Presidential Campaign

September 24, 2019September 17, 2019 E. James West Activism, anti-capitalism, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, capitalism, Communism, Communist Party, Politics, presidents

This piece is the third installment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Click these links

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Claudia Jones Against the Korean War

September 23, 2019September 16, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, antiwar activism, black internationalism, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, Black women, capitalism

Peace was a central aspect of the post-World War II Black Freedom Struggle, partially because the nuclear bomb was only

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Transnational Legacies of Slavery and Revolution in ‘The Black Scholar’

September 18, 2019September 16, 2019 Cristina Mislán African Diaspora, Afro-Cubans, black internationalism, Black Power, Caribbean, Cuba, Pan-Africanism, race

Some months after visiting Havana, Cuba in late fall of 1976, Robert Chrisman — editor-in-chief of the journal The Black Scholar —

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Revisiting the Poor People’s Campaign and Its Legacy

September 17, 2019September 16, 2019 Bobby Cervantes Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, civil rights, poor, poverty, Resistance, Social Movements

Universal health care, a public-job guarantee, and massive wealth redistribution are not just buzzwords in cable news interviews as myriad

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