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Black Lives Matter, Hip Hop, and Fighting Racism in The Netherlands

November 10, 2020November 9, 2020 Thomas van Gaalen Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black lives matter, black protest, capitalism, music, racism

The Black Lives Matter protests have sparked many responses from Black musicians—and not just in the United States. On the

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Keepin’ It Real in Contemporary Conversations on Race

November 6, 2020November 9, 2020 Omi McCadney black politics, blackness

Elwood David Watson’s Keepin’ It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America is a collection of essays analyzing tumultuous racial politics

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The Historical Significance of Black Queer Films

October 28, 2020November 9, 2020 Emerald Rutledge LGBT

Editor’s note: In honor of LGBTQ History Month, this week we’re revisiting pieces published on Black queer history, thought, and/or

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Kwame Nkrumah and Decolonial Imagination

October 9, 2020October 13, 2020 Dan Magaziner Ghana

Historian Jeffrey Ahlman talks with Dan Magaziner about Nkrumahism’s shifting forms, and its influence on contemporary decolonization movements. We have

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Remembering Wilma Rudolph, the “Queen of the Olympics”

October 2, 2020October 5, 2020 Scott N. Brooks & Aram Goudsouzian sports

Vilma! Vilma! Vilma! On September 8, 1960, Rome’s Stadio Olimpico rumbled with exuberant cheers as the crowd celebrated the woman

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