Search Results for: civil rights era

Black-Jewish Nostalgia and Black Lives Matter

November 7, 2015 Chris Cameron

The following guest post was written by David Weinfeld. He is a sessional instructor at the Centre for the Study

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When Cops Kill the Terrorists Win

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black internationalism, Black Panthers, black politics, black protest, capitalism, Chicago, Ferguson, imperialism, W.E.B. Du Bois

  On June 15, 1969 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famously declared that the

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African American Diplomacy and Disruptive Activism (Athan Biss)

October 4, 2015March 15, 2016 Guest Poster #BlackLivesMatter, black politics, Frederick Douglass

This is a guest post by Athan Biss, a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of

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On the New York Young Lords: An Interview with Darrel Wanzer-Serrano

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 Keisha N. Blain Latino/a, New York, Politics, Puerto Rican history

This month, I interviewed Dr. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, the author of an exciting new book entitled The New York Young Lords

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Sean Wilentz is wrong about the Founders, slavery, and the Constitution

September 29, 2015September 28, 2015 Patrick Rael Constitution, freedom, law, racism, slavery

According to Sean Wilentz’s opinion piece in the September 16 New York Times, the Constitution of 1787 did not make

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