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This Black History Month, Let’s Recognize the Vitality of Black Feminist Thought

“As a Black feminist philosopher, I have come to expect practices, strategies — not answers,” scholar Jeanine Weekes Schroer told me in a recent...

27.02.2024 4

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Honoring Emmett Till Means Never Looking Away From the Horror of White Supremacy

James Baldwin once said Black history is emboldening because “it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.” His...

26.02.2024 2

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What Is It About Black History That Frightens the Hell Out of the Far Right?

In February 1926, the Black historian and scholar Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week, which later became known as Black History Month....

24.02.2024 8

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Black Existentialism Brings Philosophy to Bear on Our White Supremacist World

As we celebrate Black History Month, it is important that we not think of that history as complete. The Black diaspora constitutes a complex...

21.02.2024 10

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What Can Deaf Philosophy Teach the World — and How Will It Change It?

I know what it is like to be a Black philosopher within predominantly white spaces. I know that sense of feeling invisible and alienated. But until...

11.02.2024 10

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MLK Was a Philosopher of Hope. He Reminds Us That Apathy Is a Dead End.

As we honor the 38th celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I feel a deep burning sense of unspeakable sadness in my soul — at other times,...

15.01.2024 6

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How Can Philosophy Speak to a World in Crisis? The Answer May Lie in Our Bodies.

The body is precarious. That is, as embodied people, we are all precarious, interdependent, fragile, vulnerable. As much as neoliberalism would like...

07.01.2024 7

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Clinging to Whiteness Offers False Safety – True Liberation Requires Upending It

In 1962, James Baldwin wrote “A Letter to My Nephew.” The letter communicates Baldwin’s anger, his frustration, his commitment to radical...

25.12.2023 4

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What Would Malcolm X Say About Gaza and Black Resistance in the US Today?

In deep times of sorrow and catastrophe, some of us flee. We flee either because we don’t want to face the weight and ugliness of the horror —...

23.12.2023 1

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Judith Butler: Palestinians Are Not Being “Regarded as People” by Israel and US

What’s happening in Gaza is genocide. The bodies keep falling, piling up. This is happening under our collective watch, our moment in history....

31.10.2023 2

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Dorothy Roberts Lays Out a Damning Exposé of Medical Racism and “Child Welfare”

There is an old saying that “when white folks catch a cold, Black folks get pneumonia.” That saying speaks to a fundamental truth about the U.S.:...

17.09.2023 10

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