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African American Presidential Politics and the Black Radical Imagination

April 30, 2019May 6, 2019 E. James West Activism, black politics, Black Power, electoral politics, Politics, Trumpism, voting

In March 1969, at a grade school in Washington, D.C., an eclectic audience gathered to celebrate the inauguration of comedian

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North Korea’s Unlikely History with Black Radicals

April 11, 2019August 12, 2022 Benjamin Young Afro-Asia, Black Panther Party, Black Power, Black radicalism

In 1969, Eldridge Cleaver, then a leader of the Black Panther Party, a radical organization based in Oakland that advocated

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Mapping Resistance to Surveillance

March 29, 2019August 12, 2022 Dan Berger carceral state, mass incarceration

As pundits await the release of the full Mueller Report and speculate about its final contents, the FBI enjoys greater

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Therese Patricia Okoumou: Black Women’s Bodies and Public Protest

March 18, 2019March 31, 2019 Celeste Henery Activism, black protest, carceral state, police violence, Racial Violence

Tomorrow, March 19, Therese Patricia Okoumou will be sentenced for her protest climb of the Statue of Liberty this past

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Online Forum: The 20th Anniversary of Komozi Woodard’s ‘A Nation Within A Nation’

March 18, 2019March 31, 2019 AAIHS Editors #NationWithinANation

April 1-5, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum celebrating the 20-year

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