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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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Imagining An Antiracist America in the Wake of Trump’s Election

November 13, 2016November 13, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Donald Trump, racism

In defiance of Donald Trump’s election on the platform of bigotry, and in defiance of the despair that is seemingly

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“Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson Fifteenth Amendment, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of

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Conjuring the Black Radical Tradition

November 11, 2016December 30, 2016 Austin McCoy #BlackMarxism, Angela Davis, Black Marxism, black radical tradition

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Cedric Robinson’s book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical

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