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The Impact of Student Loans on Black Wealth

August 10, 2018August 16, 2018 Devin Fergus black politics, capitalism, housing

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Devin Fergus as part

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The Connections Between Urban Development and Colonialism

August 8, 2018August 16, 2018 Paige Glotzer capitalism, colonialism, gentrification, Racial Violence, racism, segregation

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Paige

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Why I Read ‘Black Perspectives’

August 6, 2018August 4, 2018 Derrick P. Alridge black intellectual history, Why I Read 'Black Perspectives'

When I began studying Black thought and ideas many years ago, African American intellectual history was not yet a cohesive

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A Discourse on Race and Inequality in the United States

August 6, 2018August 16, 2018 Kasturi "Rumu" DasGupta economic justice, prisons, segregation, slavery

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles from this year. We begin with this

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A Brief History of the “Black Friend”

July 30, 2018August 8, 2018 Tyler Parry Jim Crow, slavery, South

In June 2018, two news reports encapsulated a problem in American race relations: a white person says something racist, apologizes

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