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Donald Trump’s Old Deal for Black America

January 29, 2017February 1, 2017 Jessica Ann Levy capitalism, Donald Trump, Politics, presidents, racism

On January 20, 2017, the world watched—many in horror—as Donald Trump was officially sworn in as the forty-fifth president of

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Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence

January 25, 2017January 27, 2017 Robert T. Chase #BloodintheWater, carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration

This is the fourth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Attica Means Fight Back: History and Storytelling as Resistance

January 24, 2017January 26, 2017 Danielle McGuire #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration

This is the third day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Blood in the Water: A New Book on the Attica Prison Uprising

January 22, 2017January 24, 2017 Michael Ezra #BloodintheWater

Today is the beginning of our online roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s new book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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The 1967 MLK and the Politics of Transcendence

January 21, 2017January 10, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black politics, Martin Luther King Jr.

I am not thinking about Donald Trump today. I am still hungover from MLK Day. I am still celebrating the

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