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Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice: An Interview with Sonia Lee

December 3, 2016December 1, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Activism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, poverty, Puerto Rican history

With the recent election of Donald Trump and the very public hate speech and violence against people of color that

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Trump’s America Was Never a Democracy

November 28, 2016November 28, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount democracy, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Politics

History is rarely written in advance. Yet on January 20, 2017 we will likely witness the largest general strike and

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Where Has All the Loving Gone? A Review of the New Film, ‘Loving’

November 27, 2016October 4, 2017 Peter Cole Virginia

A new film about the Southern working class couple whose love and dedication broke the back of anti-miscegenation laws across

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Prison Abolition Syllabus

November 20, 2016September 4, 2018 Guest Poster mass incarceration

On September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, prisoners from at least twenty-one states began striking

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Luke Cage and the African American Literary Tradition

November 1, 2016October 31, 2016 Matthew Teutsch #comicsandrace, Luke Cage

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

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