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George Yancy__CounterPunch |
“As a Black feminist philosopher, I have come to expect practices, strategies — not answers,” scholar Jeanine Weekes Schroer told me in a recent...
James Baldwin once said Black history is emboldening because “it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.” His...
In February 1926, the Black historian and scholar Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week, which later became known as Black History Month....
As we celebrate Black History Month, it is important that we not think of that history as complete. The Black diaspora constitutes a complex...
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...
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,...
The body is precarious. That is, as embodied people, we are all precarious, interdependent, fragile, vulnerable. As much as neoliberalism would like...
In 1962, James Baldwin wrote “A Letter to My Nephew.” The letter communicates Baldwin’s anger, his frustration, his commitment to radical...
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 —...
What’s happening in Gaza is genocide. The bodies keep falling, piling up. This is happening under our collective watch, our moment in history....
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.:...