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Unite the Right, Colin Kaepernick, and Social Media

September 8, 2017September 15, 2017 Azmar Williams social media, Social Movements, Virginia

On April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson captured the crux of America’s race problem in a letter to Maine politician John

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Colin Kaepernick and the Power of Black Silent Protest

September 4, 2017September 7, 2017 Ameer Hasan Loggins Activism, black protest, Colin Kaepernick, police brutality

On July 28, 1917, thousands of Black children, women, and men stoically marched in silence down Fifth Avenue in New

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Police Dogs and Anti-Black Violence

July 31, 2017August 2, 2017 Tyler Parry police violence, policing, slavery

On July 11, 2017, a video circulated throughout social media depicting the San Diego police deploying a canine against an

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The Criminalized Majority

July 21, 2017July 24, 2017 Guest Poster Activism, black politics, black radical tradition, mass incarceration, racism

by Dan Berger and David Stein “Everyone should go to jail, say, once every ten years,” opined novelist and poet

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“Business in the Black”: A New Film on the Rise of Black Business in America

July 8, 2017July 10, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, Black film

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora

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