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A New Take On An Old Story: Robyn C. Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come

July 10, 2017July 14, 2017 Michael Ezra #AAIHSRoundtable, #RevolutionHasCome, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers

This post is part of our online roundtable on Robyn Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come The wealth of scholarly inquiry

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Life in the Struggle: Stories of Life in the Black Panther Party

July 10, 2017July 14, 2017 Tracy K'Meyer #AAIHSRoundtable, #RevolutionHasCome, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers

This post is part of our online roundtable on Robyn Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come In her conclusion, Robyn C.

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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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