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Storytelling and Racial Healing

September 18, 2017September 21, 2017 Celeste Henery black internationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Frederick Douglass, racism

I recently returned from a storytelling school in a small coastal town on the North Channel of Northern Ireland. I

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Echoes of the 1960s: SNCC and White Liberal Participation in Anti-Racist Movements

September 12, 2017September 14, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Civil Rights Movement

This first summer under the Trump regime resembles the long red-hot summers of the past. It has been filled with

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Unite the Right, Colin Kaepernick, and Social Media

September 8, 2017September 15, 2017 Azmar Williams social media, Social Movements, Virginia

On April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson captured the crux of America’s race problem in a letter to Maine politician John

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The Troubled History of School Choice

September 2, 2017September 6, 2017 Erica Sterling education, education reform, law, Policy Demands

One of the most contentious debates in contemporary education reform is school choice. With the president’s $20 billion campaign pledge

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Police Dogs and Anti-Black Violence

July 31, 2017August 2, 2017 Tyler Parry police violence, policing, slavery

On July 11, 2017, a video circulated throughout social media depicting the San Diego police deploying a canine against an

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