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#BrazilFreedomSchool, Anti-Black Violence, and the Rio Olympics: An Interview with Christen Smith

September 25, 2016September 24, 2016 Yesenia Barragan #BlackLivesMatter, Brazil

This month I interviewed Professor Christen Smith (@profsassy), Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology at University

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Black Journalist T. Thomas Fortune Prophetically Predicts Today’s Political Climate

September 24, 2016September 21, 2016 Shawn Leigh Alexander black politics, Donald Trump, Politics, T. Thomas Fortune, Trumpism

Civil rights activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune was one of the most eloquent and instrumental voices of black America

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Does Fear of Black Men Satisfy the “Objective Reasonableness” Standard?

September 22, 2016September 21, 2016 Brian Purnell police brutality, police violence

Another video. Another police shooting. Another Black person’s body dead on an American road. Every person is innocent until proven

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NMAAHC and the Internationalism of African American History

September 21, 2016March 10, 2019 Skyler Gordon

This Saturday, on September 24, 2016, the National Mall will be filled with black church groups and middle school class

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Policy and Possibility in the Movement for Black Lives Platform

September 17, 2016September 13, 2016 Matthew F. Delmont #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL, Policy Demands

“A sense of possibility flows throughout these policy briefs and show that activists in the current black freedom struggle are

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