On Race and Sports: An Interview with Howard Bryant
In today’s post, Jermaine Scott, a PhD candidate in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University, interviews Howard
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The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics
In Percival Everett’s satirical novel Erasure (2001), a struggling author in need of money to pay for his elderly mother’s
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50 Years Since Detroit’s Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
On July 8, 1968, a group of Black autoworkers led a wildcat strike that partially shut down Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge
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Gender and the Politics of Anti-Black State Violence
In the early hours of November 10, 2014, fifty-four-year-old Victor Stephens called the Ann Arbor Police Department to report a
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There Is No NFL Without Black Labor
“We don’t want four boys from Oakland telling us how to run our stadium,” Ray Schuessler defiantly demanded in his
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