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A Complicitous Critique: Reading Dwayne McDuffie’s ‘Icon’ in the Wake of ‘The Death of Superman’

October 10, 2019October 6, 2019 Phillip L. Cunningham #MilestoneMedia, Black women, comic books, comics, race

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. The year 1993 proved a

Fantastic and Fatal Coalitions: Revisiting ‘Blood Syndicate’

October 8, 2019October 6, 2019 Rebecca Wanzo #comicsandrace, #MilestoneMedia, black intellectual history, comic books, comics, race, urban history, violence

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In 1983, Bernice Johnson Reagon

Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

October 2, 2019September 22, 2019 Aimee Loiselle book review, capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, labor, race

As Amazon expanded from an online retail corporation into a transnational logistics operation with retail, content/entertainment, shipping, data and web

‘Rhodes Must Fall’ and Decolonizing Education

October 1, 2019September 22, 2019 Nicholas Grant Activism, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, Black Europe, black protest, decolonization, education, empire, race, reparations

Writing in 2006, the historian Manning Marable asserted that, “The Black public intellectual must actively engage the past in such

Unilever’s Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery

September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 Thomas A. Foster art, Gender, race, Racial Violence, racism, sexuality, slavery

In a typical US advertisement for Magnum ice cream, a young, attractive white woman devours an ice-cream treat coated in chocolate. The