Black liberation
Prosecutors targeted Black Lives Matter protesters in hopes of disrupting the movement
August 19, 2021The push to use federal charges against protesters came from top-down directives from former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General William Barr.
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‘America on Fire’: A timely look at police violence and Black rebellion
July 8, 2021Violence will not end, the author asserts, until the nation stops expecting police to manage conditions that are beyond their control.
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Book highlights how early civil rights movement wedded Black liberation and anti-colonialism
May 27, 2021Few books capture the dynamism and energy of what is now called the long civil rights movement better than Lindsey R. Swindall’s 'The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World.'
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Historian says right-wing attacks on Critical Race Theory prove its value
May 26, 2021Murray State University historian Brian Clardy says the right-wing wig-out over Critical Race Theory reminds him of the castor oil he took as a kid. “It tasted awful but you knew it was good for you.”
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Getting it right on Hampton, the Panthers, and ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
March 2, 2021Joe Sims makes the case that a recent People's World film review missed the mark on some important historical details.
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