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Moving Slave Narratives from Film to Comics

December 22, 2017December 29, 2017 Nathan Moore comic books, film, Racial Violence, slavery, violence

Comics might not be the first place you’d think to go to for profound meditations on complex topics like war,

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From Sentiment to Struggle: Combating White Supremacy and Liberal Idealism

October 21, 2017October 24, 2017 Russell Rickford Activism, black protest, Donald Trump, police violence, Resistance, student activism

*This post is the transcript of remarks read at the recent Cornell faculty “kneel-in” against racism. Almost any expression of collectivity can

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Unite the Right, Colin Kaepernick, and Social Media

September 8, 2017September 15, 2017 Azmar Williams social media, Social Movements, Virginia

On April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson captured the crux of America’s race problem in a letter to Maine politician John

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Remembering Afro-German Intellectual May Ayim

September 6, 2017September 9, 2017 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, black feminism, Black German, black intellectual history, black women's internationalism, poetry

It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August

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From ADEFRA to Black Lives Matter: Black Women’s Activism in Germany

July 5, 2017July 10, 2017 Tiffany Florvil Black Europe, Germany

On Saturday, June 24, 2017 at 4:30pm, a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest took place in Berlin, Germany with thousands

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