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Black Protest, White Backlash, and the History of Scientific Racism

October 5, 2016October 4, 2016 Guest Poster 2016 Presidential Election, Colin Kaepernick

Co-Authored by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer “Mainstream culture…defines threats to racial order as a form of madness that is,

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Why We Need the #CharlestonSyllabus Now

October 4, 2016March 26, 2017 Keisha N. Blain #CharlestonSyllabus, Charleston, police brutality, police violence, South Carolina

On Friday, Sept. 23rd, the University of Georgia Press hosted the Charleston Syllabus Symposium at the University of Georgia. The

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Is the Myth of Racial Harmony Killing Our Country?

October 3, 2016October 4, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson black internationalism, black protest, police brutality

My eyes draw open, fixing on the silhouette of the spinning blades of the ceiling fan above my bed. After

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Angela Davis and the Black Radical Tradition in the Era of Black Lives Matter

October 2, 2016October 2, 2016 Minkah Makalani Angela Davis, black lives matter, black radical tradition

Over the past few days, hundreds of people joined Black Studies at the University of Texas for our first international

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“70: Remembering a Revolution” in Trinidad and Tobago

September 30, 2016September 30, 2016 Paul Hébert Canada, Eric Williams

Last month, I wrote about how close ties between Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean shaped Black activism in Canada in

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