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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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Independence Day Manifesto

January 20, 2017January 22, 2017 Russell Rickford black protest, capitalism, democracy, Donald Trump

How shall integrity face oppression? — W. E. B. Du Bois Welcome to Trump’s America. In the dark times ahead,

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Why We Need James and Grace Lee Boggs Now

January 19, 2017January 22, 2017 Garrett Felber Activism, black intellectual history, black protest

In 2011, I sat in the living room of Grace Lee Boggs at 3061 Field Street, a space Bill Strickland affectionately

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False Choices: Identity Politics and Lessons from the Left

January 18, 2017January 20, 2017 Victoria Wolcott Activism, black politics, black protest

Recently my academic-laden social media feeds have been filling up with denouncements of identity politics, or occasionally denouncements of those

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