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Black Lives, Policing, and Historical Memory

May 2, 2018May 5, 2018 Samantha Bryant black lives matter, police brutality, police violence, Resistance

On April 8, 2018, Danville police responded to a domestic disturbance between a man and a woman. The woman accused

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The Windrush Crisis and Britain’s Memory Problem

May 1, 2018May 5, 2018 Adam Thomas Blacks in Britain, Immigration, police brutality, slave trade

Black Britons have occupied a prominent place in national and global politics in recent weeks. The British government has been criticized

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May We Forever Stand: A New Book on the Black National Anthem

April 28, 2018April 30, 2018 J. T. Roane archives, black politics, culture, education, Jim Crow, music, Resistance, South

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Black Power, Collectivism, and the Politics of the Imprisoned

April 24, 2018April 28, 2018 Angela LeBlanc-Ernest #RemakingBlackPower, Black Panther Party, Black Power, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Historian Ashley D. Farmer’s characterization of Black Women’s

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The Fearless Nature of Remaking Black Power

April 24, 2018April 28, 2018 Mary Phillips #RemakingBlackPower, black feminism, Black Power, Black radicalism, Communism, Pan-Africanism, Third World Women’s Alliance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Ashley Farmer’s comprehensive text, Remaking Black Power: How

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