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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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Revolution and Repression: A Framework for African American History

June 6, 2017June 10, 2017 Brandon Byrd #Horne, Haiti

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History What are the defining themes of

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Comrades in the Struggle for Black Freedom: Gerald Horne and WEB Du Bois

June 5, 2017June 9, 2017 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #Horne, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History Gerald Horne’s first encounters with the

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“Thinking Black” Against the Carceral State: Angela Davis and Prisoner Defense Campaigns

June 3, 2017June 7, 2017 Dan Berger Angela Davis, Black radicalism, mass incarceration

The stirring directive sounded like the denouement of a legal thriller: “I am going to ask you, if you will,

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