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The Black Panthers: A New 50th Anniversary Book of Revolutionaries

September 13, 2016September 11, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Black Panther Party, Black Power, Black Power Studies

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

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This Vast Southern Empire: A New Book on Slaveholders and U.S. Foreign Policy

September 12, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Deep South, empire, slavery

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new

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The Difficulty of Uncovering Obscure Lives and Hidden Histories

September 9, 2016December 30, 2016 Brian Purnell archives, Black women, Harlem, New York, research

Today is the fifth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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“Racial Strife That’s Making Milwaukee Infamous”–Then and Now

September 3, 2016September 1, 2016 Mark Speltz NAACP, police brutality

Many Americans have read or seen the fiery aftermath following the recent police killing of Sylville Smith, but few are

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Why #BankBlack is Betraying the Black Freedom Struggle

August 30, 2016September 2, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount

Recently the #BankBlack hashtag has invaded social media outlets. Advocates believe that by transferring money and banking relationships to financial

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