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Blood in the Water: A New Book on the Attica Prison Uprising

January 22, 2017January 24, 2017 Michael Ezra #BloodintheWater

Today is the beginning of our online roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s new book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Why We Need James and Grace Lee Boggs Now

January 19, 2017January 22, 2017 Garrett Felber Activism, black intellectual history, black protest

In 2011, I sat in the living room of Grace Lee Boggs at 3061 Field Street, a space Bill Strickland affectionately

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False Choices: Identity Politics and Lessons from the Left

January 18, 2017January 20, 2017 Victoria Wolcott Activism, black politics, black protest

Recently my academic-laden social media feeds have been filling up with denouncements of identity politics, or occasionally denouncements of those

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W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead

January 11, 2017January 20, 2018 Lavelle Porter #CharlestonSyllabus, 2016 Presidential Election, Charleston, W.E.B. Du Bois

Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME

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The Long History of Black Women’s Exclusion in Historic Marches in Washington

January 4, 2017December 22, 2017 Ashley Farmer Black women, civil rights, Politics

On Saturday, January 21, 2017, the day after the presidential inauguration, thousands of women will descend on the nation’s capital

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