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Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography (Part III)

June 14, 2021June 13, 2021 Emerald Rutledge African Diaspora, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, LGBT, literature, poetry, race, sexuality

In honor of Pride Month 2021, I wanted to extend the list of texts from the bibliography offered last year,

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The Historical Roots of Abolition in the Twenty-First Century

June 11, 2021June 9, 2021 Julia Bernier Activism, black radical tradition, Haiti, slavery, white supremacy

In June 2020 Mariame Kaba penned an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled, “Yes We Literally Mean Abolish

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A More Radical Vision for Palestinian Self-determination

June 10, 2021June 9, 2021 Ira Dworkin Activism, black internationalism, black politics, black radical tradition

Nearly fifty years ago, at the 1972 National Black Political Convention (NBPC) in Gary, Indiana, Douglas E. Moore of the

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Black Wall Street, Collective Memory, and Reparations

June 4, 2021June 2, 2021 Suzanne E. Smith Activism, art, education, white supremacy

Of all the Black-owned businesses that thrived on “Black Wall Street,” it is the Dreamland Theatre that stands as the

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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Healing Historical Racial Trauma

May 31, 2021May 30, 2021 Hannibal B. Johnson black protest, race, Racial Violence, Resistance, white supremacy

The centennial of a defining, defiling moment in Tulsa history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (“Tulsa Massacre”), May 31 –

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