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Confronting Reactionaries: Black Support for The Progressive Party During the Cold War

May 4, 2020May 3, 2020 Denise Lynn anti-capitalism, Black political thought, black politics, capitalism, Communism, Communist Party, Politics

During the Cold War, progressive voices were being drowned out by the drumbeat of war, as military and political relations

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Funeral of nineteen year old Negro saw mill worker in Heard County, Georgia, May 1941." New York Public Library Digital Collections.

“If bitterness were a whetstone”: On Grief, History, and COVID-19

April 23, 2020May 16, 2020 Elise A. Mitchell capitalism, health, mourning, race

“Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.” -Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals The COVID-19 numbers are

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Corporate Imperialism vs. Black (Educational) Liberation

February 24, 2020February 23, 2020 Jarvis R. Givens #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black political thought, capitalism, education, education reform, imperialism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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Black Banking and Women Financial Power Brokers

February 20, 2020February 16, 2020 Brandon K. Winford Black women, capitalism, Jim Crow, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that

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Charlotta Bass for Vice-President: America’s Two-Parties and the Black Vote

January 21, 2020August 19, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, capitalism, Communism, Politics, white supremacy

Social media has brought the culture wars to a larger audience and demonstrates how conservatives have constructed historical narratives to

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