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Beyond Négritude: Francophone African Women’s Pan-Africanism

October 1, 2016March 13, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Black women, Pan-Africanism

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

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Black Journalist T. Thomas Fortune Prophetically Predicts Today’s Political Climate

September 24, 2016September 21, 2016 Shawn Leigh Alexander black politics, Donald Trump, Politics, T. Thomas Fortune, Trumpism

Civil rights activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune was one of the most eloquent and instrumental voices of black America

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Does Fear of Black Men Satisfy the “Objective Reasonableness” Standard?

September 22, 2016September 21, 2016 Brian Purnell police brutality, police violence

Another video. Another police shooting. Another Black person’s body dead on an American road. Every person is innocent until proven

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NMAAHC and the Internationalism of African American History

September 21, 2016March 10, 2019 Skyler Gordon

This Saturday, on September 24, 2016, the National Mall will be filled with black church groups and middle school class

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Black Lives Matter and the Price of the Ticket

September 16, 2016September 13, 2016 Duchess Harris #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, Barack Obama, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL, Policy Demands

“The policy agenda for Black Lives Matter has been relevant for as long as we have had Black lives.” You

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