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The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Lavelle Porter archives, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, literature, sexuality

The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in

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African Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black protest, racism, Resistance, South Africa

The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council

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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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