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When Cops Kill the Terrorists Win

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black internationalism, Black Panthers, black politics, black protest, capitalism, Chicago, Ferguson, imperialism, W.E.B. Du Bois

  On June 15, 1969 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famously declared that the

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Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica

October 12, 2015October 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black soldiers, Caribbean, primary source, slavery

One evening, on a road in Jamaica, a soldier belonging to the “Mulatto Company” made his evening rounds. He came

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Go for Broke: #WallerCountySyllabus

September 18, 2015September 18, 2015 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

As a result of events in Ferguson related to the death of Michael Brown, last summer Georgetown University history professor

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The ‘Dixie Narrative’ and the Meaning of Slavery

September 16, 2015March 26, 2017 Guest Poster slavery

*This is a guest post from Ibrahim Sundiata, emeritus professor of African/Afro-American Studies and History at Brandeis University. Sundiata is

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Graffitti and Archival Construction

September 15, 2015September 15, 2015 Greg Childs

    As a new school year gets underway, I find myself more excited about my course offerings than usual.

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