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Maulana Karenga, Operational Unity, and the Black Power Movement

October 9, 2024October 6, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black intellectual history, Black Power, Politics

Maulana Karenga, founder and chair of the Organization Us (Us), developed the concept of operational unity during the Black Power Movement. Several

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The Troubled History of Medical Harm to Black Women

October 8, 2024October 6, 2024 Savannah Flanagan Black women, medical racism, medicine, motherhood, slavery

In 1805, a Black woman known in the historical record as Pleasant, took a deep breath and pushed her son

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White Nativism, Haitian Immigrants, and Black Solidarity

September 4, 2024September 4, 2024 Willie Mack antiblackness, blackness, Haiti, Identity

In a recent appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, former president Donald Trump claimed his opponent in

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Reflections on Thirty Years of Democracy in South Africa

May 7, 2024May 6, 2024 Amanda Joyce Hall #AntiAparthied, #SouthAfricanApartheid

The essays featured in the roundtable on Black Perspectives have illuminated some of the many fruitful and exciting directions of

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Simon Nkoli, GLOW, and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle

April 30, 2024April 29, 2024 Yasmina Martin #AntiAparthied, #Roundtable, #SouthAfricanApartheid

This post is part of our forum on “The End of South African Apartheid Anniversary.”  At first, there was rain.

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