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The Black Intellectual Tradition and the Myth of Objectivity

August 13, 2016August 12, 2016 Brandon Byrd Manning Marable, W.E.B. Du Bois

By 1899, W.E.B. Du Bois had accomplished more than most people could accomplish in several lifetimes. One bachelor’s degree from

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Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico: An Interview with Carlos Alamo-Pastrana

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Black radicalism, empire, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico

This month I interviewed Dr. Carlos Alamo-Pastrana about his new book, Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico

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Black Intellectuals and White Audiences

July 27, 2016July 26, 2016 Guest Poster blackness, Kenneth Clark, Ta-Nehisi Coates

This guest post was originally published on Public Books and is reprinted here with permission. The author, Matthew Clair, is

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Paul Robeson, Black Dockworkers, and Labor-Left Pan-Africanism

July 25, 2016May 7, 2017 Guest Poster Pan-Africanism

This is a guest post by Peter Cole, a historian of the twentieth-century United States, South Africa and comparative history.

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Are Trump’s Black Delegates Suffering from Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome?

July 21, 2016July 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Donald Trump, Kenneth Clark

On June 21, 2016, I wrote a blog post entitled, “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome Is Racist Idea,” which elicited positive and

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