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Corporate Influence and the Legacy of Black Power

November 6, 2018November 11, 2018 E. James West Black Panther Party, Black Power, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, police violence, Resistance

My recent piece for Black Perspectives examined the relationship between Nike and Spike Lee in the wake of the company’s

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‘Radical Intellect’: An Interview with Historian Christopher M. Tinson

October 29, 2018November 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black press, primary source

In today’s post, blogger Rebecca Brenner interviews Christopher M. Tinson about his new book, Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s. Tinson

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Scales of Struggle and the Carceral State

October 29, 2018November 3, 2018 Dan Berger Jim Crow

The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court dashed the hopes of those wanting judicial protections to access abortion,

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Black Women in the Army during World War II

October 17, 2018November 3, 2018 Natalie Shibley Black women

Sandra M. Bolzenius’s Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army During World War II details

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Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, reparations, slave trade, slavery

Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,

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