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The Black Arts Movement and “A Nation Within a Nation”

April 3, 2019August 12, 2022 James Smethurst #NationWithinANation, Activism, Black Arts Movement, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Black radicalism, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

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The Women of the Committee for Unified Newark (CFUN)

April 2, 2019August 12, 2022 Ashley Farmer #NationWithinANation, Activism, black feminism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black Power, black protest, Black women, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

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The Roots of Antiblackness in the US and Brazil

March 28, 2019August 12, 2022 Kwame Holmes black feminism, black politics, black protest, Brazil, police brutality, police violence, Politics, Racial Violence, racism

At its core The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption & Black Suffering by João Vargas proposes an intriguing methodological question: Is

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Black Women’s Resistance to Sexual Violence

March 22, 2019August 12, 2022 Cécile Yézou archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, Racial Violence, Resistance

Mary told her family story to Charles Houston as part of the “Behind the Veil” oral history project undertaken by Duke University’s

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Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide

March 21, 2019August 12, 2022 Denise Lynn Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the

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