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The New Black Atheists

December 3, 2016December 2, 2016 Chris Cameron religion

Christianity has played a central role in African-American life from the late 18th century to the present. Black churches raised

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Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice: An Interview with Sonia Lee

December 3, 2016December 1, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Activism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, poverty, Puerto Rican history

With the recent election of Donald Trump and the very public hate speech and violence against people of color that

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The Revolution Has Come: A New Book on Gender and the Black Panther Party

December 2, 2016December 2, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Black Panther Party, California

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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Black Power’s Global Pulse

November 30, 2016November 30, 2016 Quito J. Swan Black Panther Party, black radical tradition

This year, the Black Panther Party (BPP), arguably the most influential Black Power organization, celebrated fifty years since its founding.

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Remembering the Grenada Revolution: A Review of David Scott’s Omens of Adversity

November 29, 2016November 27, 2016 Paul Hébert Grenada, trauma

Scholars are increasingly turning their attention to the Grenada revolution, a critical event in the history of West Indian radical

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