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Brazilian Politics and the Rise of the Far-Right

January 7, 2019January 29, 2019 Daniela Gomes Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, repression, Resistance

On October 28, Brazil elected its 38th President, Jair Bolsonaro, making a core of his 57 million supporters extremely happy

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Black Cheerleaders and A Long History of Protest

January 3, 2019January 29, 2019 Amira Rose Davis Black women, education, sports

In November 2018, Kayla Morris, a member of the San Francisco 49ers’s Gold Rush cheerleading squad, became the first NFL

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1968: Soul Music and the Year of Black Power

December 31, 2018January 29, 2019 Mark Anthony Neal Black Power, black protest, culture, music

James Brown’s iconic song “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud” was released in August 1968, seemingly a

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Top 10 of 2018 – #6 – There Is No NFL Without Black Labor

December 21, 2018December 24, 2018 Louis Moore #TopTen

*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This essay–ranked number

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Reclaiming the Tricontinental: Transnational Solidarity and Contemporary Struggles

November 9, 2018November 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Cuba

In a speech at the Hudson Institute on October 4, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence all but declared a new

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