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Global 2016 and the Radical Imagination

“We have a duty to fight for our freedom. We have a duty to win.” – Assata Shakur Watching the

I have found myself having to write, yet again, in the midst of racial, political, and social tumult. Recent events

This has been an especially difficult few weeks for those with any investment in social justice, black families and black

One of the hardest days in my early African American history class is the day that we analyze State of

Figure 1 As Jessica Marie Johnson has already documented here on AAIHS, black women utilized Beyoncé’s song, video, and performance