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Black Journalist T. Thomas Fortune Prophetically Predicts Today’s Political Climate

September 24, 2016September 21, 2016 Shawn Leigh Alexander black politics, Donald Trump, Politics, T. Thomas Fortune, Trumpism

Civil rights activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune was one of the most eloquent and instrumental voices of black America

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NMAAHC and the Internationalism of African American History

September 21, 2016March 10, 2019 Skyler Gordon

This Saturday, on September 24, 2016, the National Mall will be filled with black church groups and middle school class

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Black Power 50: A New Companion to Schomburg’s Anniversary Exhibit

September 20, 2016September 20, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Black Power, Black Power Studies

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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The Radical Democracy of the Movement for Black Lives

September 18, 2016September 13, 2016 Peniel Joseph #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, black lives matter, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL

“Black Lives Matter has cast a strobe-light on contemporary myths of racial progress, arguing correctly that the criminal justice system

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Black Lives Matter: A Legacy of Black Power Protest

September 15, 2016September 13, 2016 Hasan Kwame Jeffries #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, Black Lives Matter Forum, Black Panther Party, M4BL, Policy Demands

 “The demands made by The Movement for Black Lives makes clear that what has been occurring of late is, without

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