“Everybody’s talking bout…” – The Music of Nina Simone for Today’s Frustrations
It has been a year since the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, and Michael Brown in
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#BlackThoughtsMatter
As nine beautiful black minds are laid to rest and Confederate flags are symbolically ripped down across the nation, the
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This post was imagined in collaboration with Camille Owens, who tweets @camillesowens. When Walter Scott was murdered by a cop in
Read more“Black People and the Victorian Ethos:” Respectability Politics, Black Organizing, and Black Power
When someone is engaging in respectability politics, he or she is adopts the manners and morality of the dominant or
Read moreOn “Transpacific Antiracism”: An Interview with Yuichiro Onishi
This post is the second of a series on Afro-Asia in which I explore the myriad political strategies, alliances, and
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