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‘The Criminalization of Black Children’: A New Book on Chicago’s Juvenile System

September 11, 2018September 16, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw blackness, Chicago, criminal justice system, Gender, Migration, race

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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George Jackson: Dragon Philosopher and Revolutionary Abolitionist

August 21, 2018August 27, 2018 Joy James Political Prisoners, Prison Abolition, prisons

International Revolutionary Struggle “People who come out of prison can build up a country. Misfortune is a test of people’s

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A Discourse on Race and Inequality in the United States

August 6, 2018August 16, 2018 Kasturi "Rumu" DasGupta economic justice, prisons, segregation, slavery

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles from this year. We begin with this

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Between Europe and the Black Atlantic

July 27, 2018August 8, 2018 Caroline Bressey art, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Blacks in Britain

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ and Africatown’s Sister Settlement

July 25, 2018July 31, 2018 Sharla M. Fett literature, slave trade, slavery, Zora Neale Hurston

More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered

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