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Chokwe Lumumba and Black Nationalist Convergence

February 6, 2018February 9, 2018 Dan Berger Activism, black nationalism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Politics

Eight months into his tenure as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba passed away on February 25, 2014. The sixty-six-year-old mayor

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End the Isolation of Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown): An Open Letter

February 4, 2018February 8, 2018 AAIHS Editors Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, carceral state, Political Prisoners, prisons

The following post is an open letter by Arun Kundnani to the Bureau of Prisons and State of Georgia asking

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Remembering the Black Radical Press

January 25, 2018January 30, 2018 Christopher Tinson Black Arts Movement, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black press, Black radicalism, Third World Women’s Alliance

Print culture, including journals, magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, posters, and books, was instrumental in advancing the politics, aesthetics, and criticism of

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The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities

January 22, 2018January 30, 2018 Lavelle Porter documentary, education, film, student activism, W.E.B. Du Bois

One of the most painful and haunting images that I recall from Stanley Nelson’s documentary, Tell Them We Are Rising:

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Black German Women and the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute

January 17, 2018January 22, 2018 Tiffany Florvil Black Europe, black feminism, Black women, black women's internationalism, Germany

When the opening session of the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute began on August 2, 1991, in a

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