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#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history

With summer quickly approaching, I have compiled a list of recommended new non-fiction books. All of these books, which were

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History, Memory, and Racial Violence in America

June 8, 2018June 12, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Historical Memory, Historiography, Jim Crow, lynching, mass incarceration, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, South, white supremacy

In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) opened the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National

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Black Athletes, Anthem Protests, and the Spectacle of Patriotism

June 7, 2018June 16, 2018 Amira Rose Davis Activism, black protest, blackness, Politics, racism, sports, white supremacy

The new NFL anthem policy requires players to stand during the national anthem or face a fine. This decision is

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The 1967 Detroit Uprising and the Failure of the Criminal Justice System

June 6, 2018June 16, 2018 Say Burgin criminal justice system, Detroit, police brutality, police violence

Standing before judge Robert Columbo, a Detroiter made a standard defendant’s request to be released on his own recognizance. He

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W.E.B. Du Bois, Gender, and Black History

June 5, 2018June 16, 2018 Lavelle Porter black intellectual history, literature, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

In Axel’s Castle, critic Edmund Wilson wrote of Gertrude Stein’s enigmatic novel of nearly a thousand pages, The Making of Americans,

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