Is the Myth of Racial Harmony Killing Our Country?
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
*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
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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#BrazilFreedomSchool, Anti-Black Violence, and the Rio Olympics: An Interview with Christen Smith
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
Civil rights activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune was one of the most eloquent and instrumental voices of black America
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