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#BrazilFreedomSchool, Anti-Black Violence, and the Rio Olympics: An Interview with Christen Smith

September 25, 2016September 24, 2016 Yesenia Barragan #BlackLivesMatter, Brazil

This month I interviewed Professor Christen Smith (@profsassy), Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology at University

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Black Surveillance Matters

September 17, 2016October 27, 2016 Megan Ming Francis #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL

“The BLM platform is a stunning articulation of what a vision of black freedom means and an acknowledgement of the

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Framing a Transformative Vision for Black Lives

September 14, 2016September 13, 2016 Clarence Lang #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL, Policy Demands

“It has been precisely the audacity of this movement framing, and the resilience of the black radical imaginary, that has

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Militant Visions: A New Book on Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and American Cinema

September 11, 2016September 10, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi black soldiers

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

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ATLiens Turns 20: OutKast’s Past-Future Visions of the Hip Hop South

September 7, 2016September 6, 2016 Regina N. Bradley

At the 1995 Source awards, the Atlanta hip hop duo OutKast was met with a crowd of booing New Yorkers

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