Jack Johnson and Africa: Boxing and Race in Colonial Africa
Jack Johnson never set foot in Africa, but the circulation of his images was heavily censored and sometimes prohibited in
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Africa
The Small Spaces of Global Struggle
*This post is part of our roundtable on Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora.’ Global struggle is forged through mass protests, boycotts, and
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The Historical Roots of Abolition in the Twenty-First Century
In June 2020 Mariame Kaba penned an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled, “Yes We Literally Mean Abolish
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A More Radical Vision for Palestinian Self-determination
Nearly fifty years ago, at the 1972 National Black Political Convention (NBPC) in Gary, Indiana, Douglas E. Moore of the
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Working with Histories that Haunt Us
When I first began to conceptualize my dissertation project, I knew I wanted to write about an iconic group of
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