The Problem with Confederate Monuments in Public Spaces
In a recent interview with Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Commission, stated, “What we do in the memorial
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Comrades in the Struggle for Black Freedom: Gerald Horne and WEB Du Bois
This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History Gerald Horne’s first encounters with the
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“Thinking Black” Against the Carceral State: Angela Davis and Prisoner Defense Campaigns
The stirring directive sounded like the denouement of a legal thriller: “I am going to ask you, if you will,
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Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa
As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these
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A Civil Rights Protest Is Happening Right Now in Colombia
As of May 10, thousands in the majority-Black department of Chocó in the northwestern corridor of the Colombian Pacific are
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