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White Supremacy Is Not an Illness

December 15, 2016January 4, 2017 Guest Poster

*Co-Authored by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer A few weeks ago, we convened and moderated a “justice and equity” reading

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Prison Abolition Syllabus

November 20, 2016September 4, 2018 Guest Poster mass incarceration

On September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, prisoners from at least twenty-one states began striking

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Black Protest, White Backlash, and the History of Scientific Racism

October 5, 2016October 4, 2016 Guest Poster 2016 Presidential Election, Colin Kaepernick

Co-Authored by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer “Mainstream culture…defines threats to racial order as a form of madness that is,

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The Radical Democracy of the Movement for Black Lives

September 18, 2016September 13, 2016 Peniel Joseph #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL

“Black Lives Matter has cast a strobe-light on contemporary myths of racial progress, arguing correctly that the criminal justice system

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Black Lives Matter: A Legacy of Black Power Protest

September 15, 2016September 13, 2016 Hasan Kwame Jeffries #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, Black Lives Matter Forum, Black Panther Party, M4BL, Policy Demands

 “The demands made by The Movement for Black Lives makes clear that what has been occurring of late is, without

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