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A Bandung Conference in Harlem: The Meaning of Castro’s Visit Uptown

December 1, 2016November 30, 2016 Garrett Felber Anticolonialism, Cuba, Malcolm X, New York

Since Fidel Castro passed away last Friday, news coverage has been predictably polarizing: from celebrating his commitment to anticolonial liberation

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Trump’s America Was Never a Democracy

November 28, 2016November 28, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount democracy, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Politics

History is rarely written in advance. Yet on January 20, 2017 we will likely witness the largest general strike and

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Where Has All the Loving Gone? A Review of the New Film, ‘Loving’

November 27, 2016October 4, 2017 Peter Cole Virginia

A new film about the Southern working class couple whose love and dedication broke the back of anti-miscegenation laws across

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A Time of Monsters: Corporate Liberalism and The Rise of Trumpism

November 25, 2016January 2, 2017 Russell Rickford Barack Obama, diversity, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this

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Prison Abolition Syllabus

November 20, 2016September 4, 2018 Guest Poster mass incarceration

On September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, prisoners from at least twenty-one states began striking

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