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Local Authority in the Future of Voting Rights

April 10, 2017April 14, 2017 William Sturkey Civil Rights Movement

During the 1940s and 1950s, a Mississippi Circuit Clerk named Luther Cox gained notoriety for asking potential black voter registration

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The Third World Women’s Alliance, Cuba, and the Exchange of Ideas

April 7, 2017April 10, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, Black women, Caribbean, Cuba, Gender, Third World Women’s Alliance

Since President Obama reestablished diplomatic relations in December 2014 there has been a spike in American travel and interest in Cuba. Increased

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The Critique of Racial Liberalism: An Interview with Charles W. Mills

April 3, 2017December 30, 2017 Neil Roberts #raceandphilosophy, Philosophy, Racial Capitalism, Trumpism

This month I interviewed Charles W. Mills about his new book, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism. Mills is

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Slavery, New Orleans, and the Counting Blues

March 28, 2017March 31, 2017 Rashauna Johnson New Orleans, slave trade, slavery

In “Countin’ the Blues,” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey sings, “Layin’ in my bed with my face turned to the wall…Tryin’ to

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Howard University and the Dream Sequence

March 23, 2017March 27, 2017 Josh Myers black politics, black radical tradition, freedom

The idea of “the Dream Sequence” was introduced to me by Howard alum and former professor Acklyn Lynch, a figure

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