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Slavery and America’s Legacy of Family Separation

July 25, 2018July 31, 2018 Vanessa M. Holden Immigration, slavery

In early May 2018 news broke that federal officials had lost track of nearly 1,500 children. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced

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50 Years Since Detroit’s Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement

July 19, 2018July 26, 2018 Duncan Tarr Activism, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, capitalism

On July 8, 1968, a group of Black autoworkers led a wildcat strike that partially shut down Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge

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Sandra Bland and Assata Shakur: Imagining Liberation from Persecution

July 12, 2018July 16, 2018 Cristina Mislan #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, prisons, Sandra Bland

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The

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Sun Ra Speaks About the Trial of Angela Davis

June 20, 2018July 2, 2018 Brian Lefresne Afrofuturism, Angela Davis, Black Panther Party, music

Anthony Reed, in his recent article on the grammar of utopia and freedom in the music of jazz performer Sun

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The Historical Roots of Blues Music

May 9, 2018May 15, 2018 Lamont Pearley Sr. Great Migration, Mississippi, music, slavery

Contrary to what some people believe, the blues is not “slave music.” Although it was cultivated by the descendants of slaves,

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