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Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe

July 16, 2019July 7, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black Marxism, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York, race

In the first half of the twentieth century, Sugar Hill was the premier Black neighborhood in New York City that

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Against Multiracial Authoritarianism

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 Dan Berger black politics, black protest, civil rights, nation, Politics, race, white supremacy

Concluding her stunning essay on the racist and sexist representations of Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas as he alighted

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Pushing Beyond the Two-Party System: Dick Gregory’s 1968 Presidential Campaign

July 8, 2019July 1, 2019 E. James West Activism, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, presidents, race, Resistance

In a March 2011 profile of African American comedian Dick Gregory written for GQ magazine, journalist Robert Chalmers mused, “it’s

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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

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Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six

July 3, 2019June 21, 2019 Denise Lynn civil rights, Communism, Communist Party, Jim Crow, NAACP, police brutality, police violence, prisons, race, racism

The four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central

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