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To Be Free: The Revolutionary Movement for Black Lives

September 15, 2016September 15, 2016 Trimiko Melancon #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL, Policy Demands

“What the demands do is not only expand the activist and political work of Black Lives Matter but also evidences

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Framing a Transformative Vision for Black Lives

September 14, 2016September 13, 2016 Clarence Lang #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL, Policy Demands

“It has been precisely the audacity of this movement framing, and the resilience of the black radical imaginary, that has

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With Love and Respect: #ScholarsRespond to A Vision for Black Lives

September 14, 2016September 13, 2016 AAIHS Editors #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL, Policy Demands

Co-Authored by Keisha N. Blain and Ibram X. Kendi In recent years, we have witnessed a resurgence of black political

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Rebuilding the Robesonian Labor Movement

September 10, 2016September 10, 2016 Russell Rickford black lives matter, poverty

This post is an amended version of a speech delivered at the Tompkins County Workers Center’s Labor Day Picnic at

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The Difficulty of Uncovering Obscure Lives and Hidden Histories

September 9, 2016December 30, 2016 Brian Purnell archives, Black women, Harlem, New York, research

Today is the fifth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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