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Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe

July 16, 2019July 7, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black Marxism, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York, race

In the first half of the twentieth century, Sugar Hill was the premier Black neighborhood in New York City that

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Against Multiracial Authoritarianism

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 Dan Berger black politics, black protest, civil rights, nation, Politics, race, white supremacy

Concluding her stunning essay on the racist and sexist representations of Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas as he alighted

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Documenting Nannie Helen Burroughs: A New Book About a Pioneering Civil Rights Leader

July 12, 2019July 8, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black women, civil rights, race, Resistance

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

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Local Politics and Black Freedom After the Civil War

July 10, 2019June 30, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, black politics, economic justice, landownership, Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance, South, voting

On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an account with the Savannah, Georgia branch of the Freedmen’s Bank. Three

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(Anti)Blackness, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, and Guaidó’s Attempted Coup

July 9, 2019September 16, 2019 Layla Brown-Vincent African Diaspora, Afro-Latin, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, Latin America, race, racism

On January 23, 2019 with the support of US Vice President Mike Pence, Juan Guaidó, a white supremacist, anti-people, opposition

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