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Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects

September 9, 2017September 12, 2017 Candace Borders Black women, housing, Missouri, St. Louis

An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,

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The Criminalized Majority

July 21, 2017July 24, 2017 Guest Poster Activism, black politics, black radical tradition, mass incarceration, racism

by Dan Berger and David Stein “Everyone should go to jail, say, once every ten years,” opined novelist and poet

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The 1967 Rebellion and Visions of an Independent Black Detroit

July 17, 2017July 27, 2017 Austin McCoy black nationalism, Detroit

In all likelihood, the progressive slogan—“Another city is possible”—grew from the ashes of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. While many will

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A View From Within: Inside the Black Panther Party

July 14, 2017July 17, 2017 Quito J. Swan #AAIHSRoundtable, #RevolutionHasCome, Activism, black lives matter, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, Black Power

This post is part of our online roundtable on Robyn Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come Robyn Spencer’s The Revolution Has

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State Repression, Gender, and the Black Panthers

July 11, 2017July 15, 2017 Garrett Felber #AAIHSRoundtable, #RevolutionHasCome, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers

This post is part of our online roundtable on Robyn Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come In 1966, Huey Newton and

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