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“Concede Nothing” – How to Remember a Storm Ten Years Later

September 12, 2015September 13, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, slavery

This year marked ten years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. To say New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would

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New Releases in African American Intellectual History

September 5, 2015September 13, 2015 Chris Cameron

Below are new books in African American intellectual history soon to be published or already published within the last 6

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and the Master Narrative of American History

July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount capitalism, Ta-Nehisi Coates, teaching

    I love Ta-Nehisi Coates.  David Brooks…not so much.  Biases disclosed, their squabble—if one can even call it that—exposes

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For all the hereafter

July 5, 2015July 6, 2015 Patrick Rael

The Fourteenth Amendment is a living document, and Clarence Thomas is a terrible historian June 26 was a pretty good

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We live in interesting times.

June 29, 2015 Patrick Rael

This is a strange moment. On the one hand, the last several years have witnessed a truly remarkable change in

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