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Angela Davis and the Black Radical Tradition in the Era of Black Lives Matter

October 2, 2016October 2, 2016 Minkah Makalani Angela Davis, black lives matter, black radical tradition

Over the past few days, hundreds of people joined Black Studies at the University of Texas for our first international

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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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Black Girls, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Self-Defense

September 13, 2016September 11, 2016 Lindsey E. Jones carceral state, mass incarceration

The case of Bresha Meadows, an African American teenage girl in Ohio, is a sad commentary on the failure of

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Rebuilding the Robesonian Labor Movement

September 10, 2016September 10, 2016 Russell Rickford black lives matter, poverty

This post is an amended version of a speech delivered at the Tompkins County Workers Center’s Labor Day Picnic at

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The Surprising Role of Race in the History of Gubernatorial Impeachment

August 31, 2016August 31, 2016 Patrick Rael reconstruction

Once again, Maine Governor Paul LePage is in trouble, and race is at the heart of the matter.  The Governor’s

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