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Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017 Dan Berger black radical tradition, Politics, Resistance, Trumpism

“Power concedes nothing without demand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one of his most cited speeches. “It never did and it

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Writing and Re-writing the Legacy of Malcolm X

February 23, 2017January 25, 2018 Alaina Morgan #RememberingMalcolm, Malcolm X, Manning Marable, Nation of Islam

This post is part of our online forum,” Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. As a historian of Islam and the African Diaspora,

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There Is a Malcolm for Me

February 21, 2017February 25, 2017 Laura Warren Hill #RememberingMalcolm, Malcolm X

This post is part of our online forum,” Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. Today, as in his own lifetime, Malcolm X is

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Remembering Malcolm

February 19, 2017February 22, 2017 Garrett Felber #RememberingMalcolm, Malcolm X

This week on Black Perspectives, we mark the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with a week-long forum, “Remembering Malcolm,”

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Trumpism and the Magnitude of Mass Incarceration

February 16, 2017February 18, 2017 David Stein carceral state, Donald Trump, mass incarceration, police violence

On Thursday, February 9, President Trump instituted new executive actions, which affirmed his campaign vows to emphasize “law and order.”

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