The Radical Democracy of the Movement for Black Lives
“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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Black Lives Matter: A Legacy of Black Power Protest
“The demands made by The Movement for Black Lives makes clear that what has been occurring of late is, without
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Black Zionism, Reparations, and the “Palestine Problem”
Earlier this year, Ta-Nehisi Coates made his now-familiar argument for reparations, which called for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to
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Black Power, Name Choices, and Self-Determination
On March 6, 1964, Nation of Islam (NOI) founder Elijah Muhammad announced that he was renaming Cassius Marcellus Clay as
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Fall Teaching in a Trump Climate
As the summer comes to an end and I begin to think about teaching in the fall, I wonder how
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