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Global Black Culture: Celebrating Americanness at Festac 77

January 13, 2017May 30, 2017 Suzanne Enzerink culture, music

This month marks the anniversary of a watershed moment in global black culture and knowledge production. In January 1977, over

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W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead

January 11, 2017January 20, 2018 Lavelle Porter #CharlestonSyllabus, 2016 Presidential Election, Charleston, W.E.B. Du Bois

Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME

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The Problem of Equality: Black Communists and the Women’s Charter

January 6, 2017January 11, 2017 Denise Lynn Black women, Communism

Black Communist Thyra Edwards was not privy to the language of equity, intersectionality, and identity politics used today to describe

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Integration and Sports in the Age of Trump

January 5, 2017January 8, 2017 Jamal Ratchford 2016 Presidential Election, sports

On November 8, 2016, 62 million people effectively dismissed Colin Kaepernick when they elected Donald J. Trump as the 45th

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“This is a Country for White Men”: White Supremacy and U.S. Politics

January 5, 2017January 8, 2017 Guest Poster white supremacy

*Co-Authored by Christopher Petrella and Ameer Hasan Loggins In December 2016, A&E announced the January 10 premiere of Generation KKK, an

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