Fighting like Fannie Lou: On Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, and the Democratic Process
On August 8th, 2015, Black Lives Matter “shut down” a Bernie Sanders presidential campaign event in Seattle, Washington. Taking the
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Somebody Has to Pay: Audley Moore, Mother of the Reparations Movement
With Ta-Nehisi Coates’ celebrated article, “The Case for Reparations,” and the recent awarding of reparations to victims of police torture
Read moreRoundtable on Black Women’s Intellectual History Day 4: Activist Intellectuals
This is the fourth day of our roundtable reviewing the book Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women. We began with Lauren
Read moreBlack Women March on Washington: The Sojourners for Truth and Justice and Black Women’s Lives Matter
Before the 1963 March on Washington a group of African American women stormed the gates of the capital demanding that
Read more“Black People and the Victorian Ethos:” Respectability Politics, Black Organizing, and Black Power
When someone is engaging in respectability politics, he or she is adopts the manners and morality of the dominant or
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