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New African American History Museum Carries on a Radical Museum Tradition

October 7, 2016October 7, 2016 Andrea Burns

This article originally appeared on Process, the blog of the Organization of American Historians. It has been reproduced here with

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Why We Need the #CharlestonSyllabus Now

October 4, 2016March 26, 2017 Keisha N. Blain #CharlestonSyllabus, Charleston, police brutality, police violence, South Carolina

On Friday, Sept. 23rd, the University of Georgia Press hosted the Charleston Syllabus Symposium at the University of Georgia. The

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Is the Myth of Racial Harmony Killing Our Country?

October 3, 2016October 4, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson black internationalism, black protest, police brutality

My eyes draw open, fixing on the silhouette of the spinning blades of the ceiling fan above my bed. After

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Beyond Négritude: Francophone African Women’s Pan-Africanism

October 1, 2016March 13, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Black women, Pan-Africanism

*This is the fourth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.

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Fighting “Stop-and-Frisk” Policing from Rockefeller to Trump

September 27, 2016September 27, 2016 Garrett Felber Donald Trump, police violence

In the latest of Donald Trump’s string of attempts to “court” black voters (clearly aimed at courting his lily-white voter

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