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“Everybody’s talking bout…” – The Music of Nina Simone for Today’s Frustrations

August 2, 2015August 2, 2015 Noelle Trent

It has been a year since the deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, and Michael Brown in

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The Communist International and the “Negro Question”

July 28, 2015January 4, 2017 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, Communism, Pan-Africanism

This is the fourth day of the AAIHS’ roundtable on Hakim Adi’s Pan-Africanism and Communism. On the first day, we

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“Life Goes On:” A Meditation from Howard Thurman

July 19, 2015 Rhon Manigault-Bryant

I have previously written about the significance of mystic Howard Thurman (1889-1991) as a key “forefather” to American nonviolence, and

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Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls

July 12, 2015July 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, #CharlestonSyllabus, Activism, Ferguson, freedom, reconstruction, slavery, South Carolina

At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of

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Removing the Confederate Flag, But Not Forgetting Its Legacy

July 2, 2015 Noelle Trent

            Today is the birthday of noted civil rights activists Medgar Evers and Thurgood Marshall.

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