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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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Black Women and the Scottsboro Boys

May 7, 2018May 13, 2018 Denise Lynn Activism, Black women, Communist Party

On March 25, 1931, nine young Black men—Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Andy and Roy Wright, Olin Montgomery, Ozie

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The Windrush Crisis and Britain’s Memory Problem

May 1, 2018May 5, 2018 Adam Thomas Blacks in Britain, Immigration, police brutality, slave trade

Black Britons have occupied a prominent place in national and global politics in recent weeks. The British government has been criticized

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The Fearless Nature of Remaking Black Power

April 24, 2018April 28, 2018 Mary Phillips #RemakingBlackPower, black feminism, Black Power, Black radicalism, Communism, Pan-Africanism, Third World Women’s Alliance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Ashley Farmer’s comprehensive text, Remaking Black Power: How

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