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Distinguishing Abolition from Reform

September 24, 2020September 22, 2020 Sasha Turner #CapitalismandSlavery, abolition, African Diaspora, Black political thought, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, imperialism, race, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor

September 18, 2020September 17, 2020 Andrew Grim electoral politics, police brutality, policing, Politics

Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to

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The Complexities of Black Feminism in Europe

September 17, 2020September 16, 2020 Julia Chinyere Oparah Black women

Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande’s powerful anthology of writings by feminists of African descent, To Exist is to Resist: Black

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En tierra moribunda: más allá de la toxicidad en una comunidad Afromexicana

September 16, 2020September 17, 2020 Jayson Maurice Porter & Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez #BlackEcologies, Black Ecologies, environment, environmentalism

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. Una madrugada

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On Dying Land: the Afterlife of Toxicity in an Afromexican Community 

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 Jayson Maurice Porter & Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez #BlackEcologies, Black Ecologies, environment, environmentalism

*This post is part of our series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. A

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