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Black Radical Silence on Palestine

May 16, 2018May 22, 2018 Alaina Morgan Anticolonialism, black lives matter, Black Panther Party, colonialism, Malcolm X, violence

In the months leading up to the annual Palestinian Land Day commemoration on March 30, 2018, Palestinian activists living in

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Afro-Brazilians and Contemporary Lynchings in Brazil

April 19, 2018April 24, 2018 Jaimee A. Swift African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, lynching, Racial Violence, violence, white supremacy

In historical understandings of racial violence against African Americans in the United States, lynching typically summons imagery of white crime

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Gender, Civil Rights, and the Case of Odell Waller

February 26, 2018March 1, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Jim Crow, law, poverty, violence

Pauli Murray is a central figure of women’s activism. Her career spanned five decades and included work in the labor

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François Duvalier and the Misuse of Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 2018January 20, 2018 Brandon Byrd Caribbean, Haiti, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr., violence

On the morning of April 9, 1968, the Haitian political elite joined the US diplomatic core in the Port-au-Prince Cathedral.

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Moving Slave Narratives from Film to Comics

December 22, 2017December 29, 2017 Nathan Moore comic books, film, Racial Violence, slavery, violence

Comics might not be the first place you’d think to go to for profound meditations on complex topics like war,

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