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Welfare Reform Syllabus

August 24, 2016August 22, 2016 Guest Poster poverty

This syllabus was originally published on the website of the Anna Julia Cooper Center and is reprinted here with permission.

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Blood in the Water: A New Book on the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971

August 23, 2016August 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Activism, Black radicalism, police brutality, police violence

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing–announcing the publication of selected new books

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#SandraBland Soundtrack

August 19, 2016August 15, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere Sandra Bland

My post last month used visual art as a way to mark the one-year anniversary of Sandra Bland’s death (see

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“To Be Proud of Being Who We Are”: Remembering Leslie Brown

August 14, 2016August 13, 2016 Brandon K. Winford Leslie Brown

At the end of our lives, if we are lucky, most of us can only hope to be proud of

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Lessons in Law and Order Politics

August 9, 2016July 12, 2017 Dan Berger criminal justice system, democracy

While many commentators have juxtaposed the bizarre hilarity of the Republican National Convention to the carefully crafted Democratic National Convention,

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