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Assata Shakur — “Women in Prison: How It Is With Us”
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The Combahee River Collective Statement
Fred Hampton — “Power Anywhere There’s People”
Jesse Gray — “The Black Revolution: A Struggle for Political Power”
Jack O’Dell — “The July Rebellions and the ‘Military State’”
Our members-only podcast is now available to all! A reading series of radical essays and speeches, season one highlights six short texts related to Black liberation struggles in the U.S., from Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective.
Claudia Jones — “An End of the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!”
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The pandemic may spell the end of many gay bars, but apps and increased acceptance for LGBTQ people meant most were already on the rocks. Should we mourn their passing?
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As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.
Justin H. Vassallo
Coast Guard techniques for blocking Haitian asylum seekers have their roots in the slave trade. Understanding these connections can help us disentangle immigration policy from white nationalism.
Ryan Fontanilla
A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.
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