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A Tale of Two Graffitis: The American Tag and the Brazilian Pixação

September 23, 2016September 23, 2016 Greg Childs Brazil, Politics

In 1970 on the U.S. East Coast, before there were murals or graffiti “pieces,” even before people began experimenting with

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Una Mulzac, Black Women Booksellers, and Pan-Africanism

September 19, 2016September 19, 2016 Joshua Clark Davis #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Activism, black intellectual history, Pan-Africanism

*This is the third post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.

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The Radical Democracy of the Movement for Black Lives

September 18, 2016September 13, 2016 Peniel Joseph #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL

“Black Lives Matter has cast a strobe-light on contemporary myths of racial progress, arguing correctly that the criminal justice system

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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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With Love and Respect: #ScholarsRespond to A Vision for Black Lives

September 14, 2016September 13, 2016 AAIHS Editors #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL, Policy Demands

Co-Authored by Keisha N. Blain and Ibram X. Kendi In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of black political

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