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Black Women March on Washington: The Sojourners for Truth and Justice and Black Women’s Lives Matter

April 17, 2015April 20, 2015 Ashley Farmer

Before the 1963 March on Washington a group of African American women stormed the gates of the capital demanding that

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A Bibliography of Black Internationalism

April 6, 2015March 28, 2016 Keisha N. Blain

Over the past several years, I have been conducting research for a book on black nationalism, radical politics, and internationalism during

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“Black People and the Victorian Ethos:” Respectability Politics, Black Organizing, and Black Power

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 Ashley Farmer

When someone is engaging in respectability politics, he or she is adopts the manners and morality of the dominant or

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Women’s History Month: The Legacy of the Fight over the 15th Amendment

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 Noelle Trent Fifteenth Amendment, Frederick Douglass

                     During the past week, Patricia Arquette’s comments during her Oscars acceptance speech have ignited debate across

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On “Transpacific Antiracism”: An Interview with Yuichiro Onishi

February 26, 2015February 25, 2015 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Asia, Japan, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is the second of a series on Afro-Asia in which I explore the myriad political strategies, alliances, and

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