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Remembering Wilma Rudolph, the “Queen of the Olympics”

October 2, 2020October 5, 2020 Scott N. Brooks & Aram Goudsouzian sports

Vilma! Vilma! Vilma! On September 8, 1960, Rome’s Stadio Olimpico rumbled with exuberant cheers as the crowd celebrated the woman

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Race in Contemporary America: An Interview with Historian Elwood Watson

September 29, 2020September 27, 2020 Tyler Parry Donald Trump, Election, Politics, social justice

In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Elwood Watson about his new book, Keepin’ It Real: Essays on Race in

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Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory’

September 10, 2020September 17, 2020 E. James West Abraham Lincoln

The work of popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. falls within a longer ‘anti-Lincoln tradition’ of African American intellectual thought–a tradition

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Afropessimism’s Contributions to Black Studies

September 4, 2020September 17, 2020 Joseph Winters Afro-pessimism

According to Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism contends that “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for

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The Everyday Black Life of Abolition

August 5, 2020August 12, 2020 Celeste Winston maroons, policing, Prison Abolition, social justice

The summer of 2020 has seen extraordinary uprisings against policing in the United States. An estimated 15 to 26 million

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