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Attica: The Present and the Recent Past

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 LaShawn Harris #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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The Long History of Black Women’s Exclusion in Historic Marches in Washington

January 4, 2017December 22, 2017 Ashley Farmer Black women, civil rights, Politics

On Saturday, January 21, 2017, the day after the presidential inauguration, thousands of women will descend on the nation’s capital

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Women’s Leadership in the Organization of Afro-American Unity

October 27, 2016October 28, 2016 Garrett Felber #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism

*This is the sixth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.

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Fighting “Stop-and-Frisk” Policing from Rockefeller to Trump

September 27, 2016September 27, 2016 Garrett Felber Donald Trump, police violence

In the latest of Donald Trump’s string of attempts to “court” black voters (clearly aimed at courting his lily-white voter

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The Radical Democracy of the Movement for Black Lives

September 18, 2016September 13, 2016 Peniel Joseph #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL

“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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