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Black Zionism, Reparations, and the “Palestine Problem”

August 28, 2016August 26, 2016 Garrett Felber black nationalism

Earlier this year, Ta-Nehisi Coates made his now-familiar argument for reparations, which called for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to

Agents of Change: A New Documentary on Black Student Activism

August 26, 2016September 29, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black lives matter

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am curating–announcing the release of selected new works in

A Country of Their Own: An American Ex-Slave’s Search for Homeland in Panama

August 23, 2016August 21, 2016 Yesenia Barragan Colombia

While wandering through the maze of microfilm one afternoon at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, Colombia, I

Blood in the Water: A New Book on the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971

August 23, 2016August 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Activism, Black radicalism, police brutality, police violence

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing–announcing the publication of selected new books

The Passing of Professor Leslie Brown

August 18, 2016August 20, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Leslie Brown

Leslie Brown died of leukemia in Boston on August 5 surrounded by loving friends and her long term partner Annie