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Dying Laughing: Black Fugitivity and Black Queer Precarity

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 Keelyn Bradley black politics, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black women, LGBT, race

If, as Ralph Ellison writes, Black laughter is, as an expression of Black humanity, a threat to white social order

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Paul Boutelle’s 1968 Vice-Presidential Campaign

November 18, 2019November 16, 2019 E. James West Activism, anti-capitalism, black intellectual history, black politics, capitalism, Communism, Politics

This piece is the fourth installment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Click these links

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The Killing of John Derrick

October 28, 2019October 24, 2019 Denise Lynn black politics, Communism, Communist Party, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence

The long history of law enforcement in the United States is littered with the regular abuse, harassment, and too often

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Creating Digital Space for Black Scholarship

October 17, 2019October 9, 2019 Black Book Interactive Project Scholars archives, black intellectual history, digital media, education, literature

This year, within a week, we lost two geniuses: Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall. But at least their words circulate,

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Black Freethinkers: A New History of African American Secularism

September 27, 2019September 20, 2019 J. T. Roane Black Freethought, black intellectual history, religion

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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