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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles

October 30, 2018November 3, 2018 Shelby M. Sinclair Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, decolonization, Gender, race, racism

In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory

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A Tool for Our Times: Legacies of Black Radicalism and Communism

October 19, 2018November 3, 2018 John Munro black radical tradition, Black radicalism

Speaking recently about “Mapping Communist Internationalism and Class Struggle Then and Now” at the social movement incubator that is The

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The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Lavelle Porter archives, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, literature, sexuality

The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in

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Claudia Jones and the FBI Harassment of Black Radicals

October 3, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Claudia Jones

This is the first installment of a three-part series on Claudia Jones. In February 2018, New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz

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Centering Black Nationalist Women’s Ideas: An Author’s Response

September 28, 2018October 1, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black nationalism, black politics, black women's internationalism, Politics, Set the World on Fire

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire Set the World on Fire was a

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