Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics: An Interview with Amira Rose Davis
The country is now recognizing black athletes as protest leaders and the sports field as a viable space for resistance and
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What’s Missing from Black Counternarratives to Donald Trump
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s speeches and faux outreach to African Americans before all-white crowds in Michigan and Milwaukee in
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The Mysterious Thelma X and the Struggle of Black Domestic Workers
Several years ago, I was looking through the papers of sociologist C. Eric Lincoln at the Robert W. Woodruff Library
Read moreFree Joan Little: Anti-rape Activism, Black Power, and the Black Freedom Movement
With the news of the Daniel Holtzclaw trial verdict, black women’s sexual assault should be front-page news. This should especially be the case
Read moreOn the use of “Slave Mistress”
The passing of the great civil-rights leader Julian Bond earlier this week ignited a firestorm of activity on Twitter.
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