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Lewis Gordon and Nathalie Etoke discuss the space for freedom opened up by Black existentialist thought.
Melvin Rogers and Neil Roberts discuss the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.
Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.
It's at the heart of what makes The Black Jacobins a classic.
How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.
The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class.
The novel Kindred reminds us—emphatically, gruesomely—that white supremacy is us too.
N'Kosi Oates speaks with J.T. Roane about Philadelphia's spatial politics and resistance to racial containment.
What does it mean for those living in the diaspora to remain attached to the land they left behind?
When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.
A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.
Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley.
A posthumous collection tracks Noel Ignatiev’s commitment to class struggle, abolishing whiteness, and finding a vision of freedom in the minds and actions of working people.
The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.
Harm reduction strategies have the best chance of stopping this disease.
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