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A Brief History of the “Black Friend”

July 30, 2018August 8, 2018 Tyler Parry Jim Crow, slavery, South

In June 2018, two news reports encapsulated a problem in American race relations: a white person says something racist, apologizes

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Between Europe and the Black Atlantic

July 27, 2018August 8, 2018 Caroline Bressey art, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Blacks in Britain

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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50 Years Since Detroit’s Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement

July 19, 2018July 26, 2018 Duncan Tarr Activism, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, capitalism

On July 8, 1968, a group of Black autoworkers led a wildcat strike that partially shut down Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge

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The National Council of Negro Women and the Black Freedom Struggle

July 17, 2018July 20, 2018 Dan Berger Activism, Black women, Resistance

When Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore for the Senate seat previously occupied by Attorney General and career racist Jeff Sessions

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African Americans and the Congo: An Interview with Ira Dworkin

July 16, 2018July 20, 2018 Marius Kothor African Diaspora, imperialism, Pan-Africanism, Patrice Lumumba

In today’s post, Marius Kothor, a PhD student in the Department of History at Yale University, interviews Ira Dworkin on his new

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