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How Black Activists Sought Healthcare Reform: A New Documentary

September 5, 2019September 16, 2019 Christopher Willoughby Activism, Black film, black intellectual history, black politics, capitalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, film, health, medicine

“The American Medical Association has never been a friend to us [African Americans],” explained the late Chicago physician Dr. Donald

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Freedom Without Citizenship, Reconciliation without Reparations

September 3, 2019August 30, 2019 Westenley Alcenat black politics, capitalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, race, Race and Economic History, racism, slavery, white supremacy

This post is part two of a two-part commentary/analysis on Black citizenship after Reconstruction. Read part one here: “Deferred Freedom

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White Women Slave Owners, Economics, and the Law

July 25, 2019September 16, 2019 Terri L. Snyder capitalism, race, Race and Economic History, Racial Violence, racism, slave trade, slavery, South

In a treatise published in 1681, Anglican clergyman Morgan Godwyn, who had ministered to parishes in Virginia and Barbados, recounted

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Mapping Blackness in Yugoslavia and Post-Yugoslav Space

July 17, 2019September 16, 2019 Sunnie Rucker-Chang African Diaspora, Black Europe, capitalism, Communism, Pan-Africanism, race, Soviet Union

96-year-old Fatmire is one of the few remaining members of a small and relatively unknown Afro-Albanian “Black” community in Montenegro, a

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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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