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What is Happening in Waller County?: Sandra Bland and the Sister Comrades Who #sayhername

August 12, 2015August 12, 2015 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

On Friday, July 10, 2015, just outside of the campus of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) in Waller County, a

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Radical Transcripts Hidden in Plain View: Excavating and Recovering “Negro Toilers” in the Communist Archive

July 27, 2015December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, Communism, Garveyism, Pan-Africanism

This is the third day of the AAIHS’ roundtable on Hakim Adi’s Pan-Africanism and Communism. On the first day, we

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“Life Goes On:” A Meditation from Howard Thurman

July 19, 2015 Rhon Manigault-Bryant

I have previously written about the significance of mystic Howard Thurman (1889-1991) as a key “forefather” to American nonviolence, and

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Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls

July 12, 2015July 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, #CharlestonSyllabus, Activism, Ferguson, freedom, reconstruction, slavery, South Carolina

At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of

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For all the hereafter

July 5, 2015July 6, 2015 Patrick Rael

The Fourteenth Amendment is a living document, and Clarence Thomas is a terrible historian June 26 was a pretty good

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