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Black Transnationalism in Practice

December 8, 2016March 13, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel black feminism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Eslanda Robeson, Pan-Africanism

Ghanaian politics have once again come to the fore of international media coverage as Ghanaians await the results of the

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The Audacity of “Nope”: Why a Trump Presidency Is No Surprise

December 5, 2016March 17, 2017 Trimiko Melancon 2016 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, W.E.B. Du Bois

After the 2008 election of Barack H. Obama, the 44th President of the United States, it became customary for some

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On Authoritarianism and Civilization

December 4, 2016December 2, 2016 Neil Roberts 2016 Presidential Election, Donald Trump, marronage

This piece was originally published on Public Seminar and is reprinted here with permission. In 1890 the young W.E.B. Du

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Writing Black Women’s Intellectual History

November 21, 2016March 26, 2017 Keisha N. Blain black internationalism

At the recent ASALH conference in Richmond, Virginia, I participated in a roundtable on “Problems and Approaches in African American

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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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