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Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a Racist Idea

June 21, 2016June 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi trauma

For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,

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The Pre-History of President Clinton’s Racist (and Antiracist) Liberalism

May 21, 2016May 20, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Barack Obama, electoral politics

About a week ago, former President Bill Clinton once again had to defend his 1994 crime bill at an event

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Marable’s Malcolm: A Revisitation

May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 Russell Rickford black intellectual history, black nationalism, Malcolm X, Manning Marable

Writing about Malcolm X can feel like stepping into a whirlpool. The further one ventures beneath the currents, the more

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Martin Sostre and the Fight against Solitary Confinement

May 16, 2016January 1, 2017 Garrett Felber

In the summer of 2015, President Barack Obama finally broke the silence on the use of solitary confinement, calling for

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Pragmatic Black Nationalism

April 29, 2016April 29, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreAnAfricanPeople, Pan-Africanism

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Russell Rickford’s book, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black

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