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First Strike: A New Book on Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles

October 24, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Los Angeles

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th

October 22, 2016July 12, 2017 Dan Berger carceral state

When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause

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Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi racism

“Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black minds and legally exclude their

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Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics: An Interview with Amira Rose Davis

October 14, 2016October 13, 2016 Ashley Farmer Colin Kaepernick, Politics, sports

The country is now recognizing black athletes as protest leaders and the sports field as a viable space for resistance and

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Erna Brodber and Pan-Africanism in Post-Independence Jamaica

October 12, 2016October 12, 2016 Petal Samuel #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Jamaica, Pan-Africanism

*This is the fifth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.

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