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Black Insurgency, Anti-Racism, and the Student Mobilization Against Guns
March 2, 2018Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Democracy
Democracy Dies in Darkness
February 28, 2018Elzbieta Matynia
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Race
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of An Idea
February 19, 2018Christopher Lebron
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Martin Luther King’s “False God of Nationalism”
January 9, 2018Vaughn A. Booker
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Translation Can Be a Peculiar Drug
November 29, 2017Val Vinokur
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Mobilizing to Fight Trump’s Proposed Transgender Ban
July 27, 2017Jennifer Finney Boylan
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Activism
Punching Nazis in the Face
March 6, 2017Eric Anthamatten
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Mobilities
Sanctuary Campus
February 2, 2017Alexandra Délano Alonso
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The Trump Executive Orders on Immigration Enforcement
January 28, 2017T. Alexander Aleinikoff
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American Elections: A Conversation on the Left
September 26, 2016Nancy Fraser, Andrew Arato
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A Kurdish Paradox in Turkey’s Wine Country
August 2, 2016Joseph Lombardo
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Black Lives Matter: The Politics of Race and Movement in the 21st Century
January 18, 2016Deva Woodly

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