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Writing and Re-writing the Legacy of Malcolm X

February 23, 2017January 25, 2018 Alaina Morgan #RememberingMalcolm, Malcolm X, Manning Marable, Nation of Islam

This post is part of our online forum,” Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. As a historian of Islam and the African Diaspora,

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Remembering Malcolm

February 19, 2017February 22, 2017 Garrett Felber #RememberingMalcolm, Malcolm X

This week on Black Perspectives, we mark the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with a week-long forum, “Remembering Malcolm,”

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Trumpism and the Magnitude of Mass Incarceration

February 16, 2017February 18, 2017 David Stein carceral state, Donald Trump, mass incarceration, police violence

On Thursday, February 9, President Trump instituted new executive actions, which affirmed his campaign vows to emphasize “law and order.”

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The Love Between Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks

February 13, 2017February 17, 2017 Betsy Schlabach Chicago

In 1986, African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks wrote of her life-long friend Langston Hughes: “‘WHAT was Langston Hughes? An overwhelmer.

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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence, Part 4

February 12, 2017February 16, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt emancipation, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, white supremacy

This essay is Part Four of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

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