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The Black Poet’s Journey Through the Iron Curtain

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 Caio Fernandes Barbosa art, Black Arts, Brazil, poetry, Soviet Union

In late July 1955, after sailing to France and then taking a train to Poland, the Brazilian Black poet Solano

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#BlackThoughtsMatter

January 30, 2024January 23, 2024 Guy Emerson Mount black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, education

This article was originally published on June 28, 2015 As nine beautiful Black minds are laid to rest and Confederate

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Searching for Lucy Parsons: A Racial Riddle

January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 Emily England Activism, Gender, race, Resistance

This article was originally published on March 22, 2015.  How do I accurately discuss a historical person who was known

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Black Mothers and the Birth Control Movement

January 26, 2024January 20, 2024 Destiny Crockett Black women, Gender, Resistance

This article was originally published on October 30, 2015. Although I stand with Planned Parenthood through the contentious recent discussions

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“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law

January 25, 2024January 21, 2024 Christopher Bonner 19c, fugitivity, Resistance, slave law, slavery

This article was originally published on August 25, 2015. In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris,

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