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There Is No NFL Without Black Labor

June 19, 2018June 23, 2018 Louis Moore black protest, Colin Kaepernick, Resistance, sports

“We don’t want four boys from Oakland telling us how to run our stadium,” Ray Schuessler defiantly demanded in his

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A Bibliography of Black Internationalism, Part II

June 18, 2018December 15, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black internationalism

The scholarship on Black internationalism has grown in leaps and bounds since my first reading list on the topic–originally published

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Langston Hughes on Film: An Interview with Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks

June 12, 2018June 16, 2018 Imani A. Wadud archives, art, black intellectual history, blackness, film, Harlem Renaissance, music

In today’s post, University of Kansas PhD Candidate, Imani A. Wadud, interviews Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks on their new

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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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