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Can Reparations Save American Politics?

June 29, 2017July 1, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, University of Chicago

Nowhere does ‘the perfect become the enemy of the good’ so incessantly than in contemporary debates over reparations. Perhaps this

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The Environment as Freedom: A Decolonial Reimagining

June 24, 2017June 27, 2017 Malini Ranganathan black politics, freedom

“The environmental movement is, in my view, the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity in the modern world” said Myron

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Aaron Alpeoria Bradley and Black Power during Reconstruction

June 21, 2017June 24, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt Black Power, Politics, reconstruction

American historians have long traced the genesis of the Black Power movement to 1966. I would argue, however, that one

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Racial Violence on the Anniversary of the Charleston Massacre

June 17, 2017June 19, 2017 Keisha N. Blain #CharlestonSyllabus, Charleston, Racial Violence, violence

On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into a predominantly black church in Charleston, South Carolina. That evening, a

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Remembering Gwen Patton, Activist and Theorist

June 14, 2017June 17, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black Power, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

“Ideas are powerful,” Dr. Gwendolyn Patton used to say when she talked to the younger generation about civil rights and political

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