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Revisiting Ta-Nehisi Coates on White Supremacy

The Status of Hope in America

April 10, 2018 • by Madison Chu

The American fear of uncertainty is one that the people living within her belly strive to terminate through pragmatism, which promises quantifiable and “progressive” results. The entire “American Dream” rests on the fundamental faith that our institutions and famous (infamous we might argue) social slogan instills into each American heart: ...

Revisiting Ta-Nehisi Coates on White Supremacy

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Older Black Workers Face More Risk in Economic Downturns

March 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55

April 8, 2018 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.2% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in March, a rate unchanged since February. For decades, economists have documented that the racial gap in unemployment rates is widest at the depth of a recession and narrowest right before the economy goes into recession. In ...

Older Black Workers Face More Risk in Economic Downturns

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People Falling All Around Us

Why the killing of Marielle Franco?

March 29, 2018 • by Marianna Poyares

On the night of the 14th of March, elected councilwoman for the city of Rio de Janeiro, Marielle Franco, was shot dead in her car while returning from an event dedicated to black women’s empowerment. Nine gunshots were fired against the car, four of which hit Marielle directly in the ...

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Black Insurgency, Anti-Racism, and the Student Mobilization Against Guns

The similarities and differences of these social movements

March 2, 2018 • by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

I have seen many comments on social media about the significant difference in how the emergence of the student mobilizations against gun violence has been greeted compared to the Black insurgency of Black Lives Matter. It is an important discussion to have because if these current mobilizations hope to grow into ...

Black Insurgency, Anti-Racism, and the Student Mobilization Against Guns

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A Primary Moral Position

Black feminism and self possession

February 23, 2018 • by Christopher Lebron

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a section ...

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part III

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 22, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the final segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University of Virginia. The first two segments tracked the inner ...

Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part III

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Is Equality Enough?

Black feminist views of justice

February 22, 2018 • by Deva Woodly

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a section ...

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Blackness, Gender, and the Non-normative

A Response to Christopher Lebron’s The Making of Black Lives Matter

February 21, 2018 • by Marquis Bey

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a section ...

Blackness, Gender, and the Non-normative

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Multiple and Interlocking

Black Lives Matter as the lens through which a system is made clear

February 20, 2018 • by Jenn M. Jackson

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a section ...

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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of An Idea

Race/isms Book Forum

February 19, 2018 • by Christopher Lebron

For our first installment, we feature and discuss Christopher Lebron’s recently published intellectual history: The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of An Idea. The discussion includes reflections by Jenn M. Jackson, Marquis Bey, and Deva Woodly. Our focus is the book’s third chapter: “For Our Sons, Daughters, and ...

The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of An Idea

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Patriot Soldiers from Sh*thole Countries

Remembering African-American and Haitian soldiers in the American Revolution

January 29, 2018 • by Zara Anishanslin

Just over a week ago, it was reported that President Trump referred to Haiti and Africa as “sh**hole” countries, suggesting that immigrants from both places were undesirable. It seems timely to remember that thousands of Patriot soldiers of African descent from both America and Haiti helped the United States win its war of ...

Patriot Soldiers from Sh*thole Countries

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Courts Rethinking Gerrymandering

Pennsylvania Supreme Court throws out congressional districts drawn by republicans

January 28, 2018 • by John Lawrence

Whenever a discussion of the origins and causes of contemporary partisanship takes place, it doesn’t take long for the subject to turn to the pernicious topic of gerrymandering: drawing legislative district lines to enhance the probability that one party will win a larger number of seats than the partisan vote ...