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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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Opening the Racist Closets of History: Seven Well-Meaning Americans

March 21, 2017March 25, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Assimilationism, racism

It seems as if everyone—except his racist supporters—are recognizing the obvious: Donald Trump is a racist. But racism extends far

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The Congressional Black Caucus and the Dilemmas of Progressive Politics

March 20, 2017March 24, 2017 Austin McCoy black politics, black protest, Politics

President Donald Trump’s request for White House correspondent April Ryan to “set up” a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus

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Race, Belonging, and Unconditional White Amnesty

March 15, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Donald Trump, Post-Civil War, reconstruction, white supremacy

At a raucous 2016 campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, then-candidate Donald Trump outlined his plan to curb “illegal immigration” and

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