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Colored Travelers: A New Book on Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship

November 28, 2016November 27, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi travel

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies

November 17, 2016November 13, 2016 Keri Leigh Merritt Deep South

This essay is the first post in a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part

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Conjuring the Black Radical Tradition

November 11, 2016December 30, 2016 Austin McCoy #BlackMarxism, Angela Davis, Black Marxism, black radical tradition

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Cedric Robinson’s book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical

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Does Fear of Black Men Satisfy the “Objective Reasonableness” Standard?

September 22, 2016September 21, 2016 Brian Purnell police brutality, police violence

Another video. Another police shooting. Another Black person’s body dead on an American road. Every person is innocent until proven

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Uncovering the Voices of Working-Class Black Women in Harlem

September 6, 2016December 30, 2016 Julie Gallagher archives, Black women, Harlem, New York, research

Today is the second day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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