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The Wall of Respect: A New Book on Public Art and Black Liberation

September 15, 2017September 16, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi art, Black Power, black protest, Chicago

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Echoes of the 1960s: SNCC and White Liberal Participation in Anti-Racist Movements

September 12, 2017September 14, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Civil Rights Movement

This first summer under the Trump regime resembles the long red-hot summers of the past. It has been filled with

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The Problem with Confederate Monuments in Public Spaces

July 26, 2017August 12, 2017 Matthew Teutsch Jim Crow, slavery, white supremacy

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

June 5, 2017June 9, 2017 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #Horne, W.E.B. 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

June 3, 2017June 7, 2017 Dan Berger Angela Davis, Black radicalism, mass incarceration

The stirring directive sounded like the denouement of a legal thriller: “I am going to ask you, if you will,

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