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Donald Trump’s Old Deal for Black America

January 29, 2017February 1, 2017 Jessica Ann Levy capitalism, Donald Trump, Politics, presidents, racism

On January 20, 2017, the world watched—many in horror—as Donald Trump was officially sworn in as the forty-fifth president of

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“Class Struggle Pan-Africanism”: C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain

January 29, 2017February 28, 2017 Paul Hébert Blacks in Britain, C.L.R. James, Marxism, Pan-Africanism

In her contribution to the 1992 edited volume C.L.R. James’s Caribbean, the Jamaican literary scholar Sylvia Wynter coined the term

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Online Forum: “Remembering Malcolm”

January 28, 2017February 16, 2017 AAIHS Editors #RememberingMalcolm

February 19-25, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online forum in recognition of the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.

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Blood in the Water: An Author’s Response

January 27, 2017January 29, 2017 Heather Ann Thompson #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the final day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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On Post-War Black British History

January 27, 2017January 29, 2017 Hakim Adi Caribbean, Politics

It is always fascinating to read historical accounts of the period you have lived through, or think you are familiar

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