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Black History Testifies to the Impossible Creative Power of Black Resistance

Black History Testifies to the Impossible Creative Power of Black Resistance

Literary scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.

24.02.2025 40

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George Yancy

Frederick Douglass’s Words Ring True: “Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand”

Frederick Douglass’s Words Ring True: “Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand”

Let’s draw on the defiant wisdom of Frederick Douglass as Trump carries out a blitzkrieg against democracy in the US.

15.02.2025 6

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Remember What Audre Lorde Told Us: The Oppressor Doesn’t Determine What’s True

To navigate these terrible times, we need Audre’s Lorde’s audacity: Protect the public sphere. Refuse to be silenced.

08.02.2025 5

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Why the Right Is Wrong About Critical Race Theory

The right wing has tried to distort critical race theory. This Black History Month, let’s reflect on what it really is.

01.02.2025 20

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Cornel West: We Must Keep Our Souls Intact as We Organize Under Trump Again

After the election, I received several texts and email messages expressing a deep sense of sorrow, angst, dread and heartbreak. Personally, I felt...

01.12.2024 10

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Abolition Work Shows Us There’s Joy to Be Found Even as the World Is on Fire

We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition is a call to rethink and re-practice the deeper everyday meaning, existential vitality and...

19.11.2024 4

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How Does Israel Justify Genocide? It Starts in the Schools.

In The Black Image in the White Mind, historian George M. Frederickson writes, “In the years immediately before and after 1800, white Americans...

15.09.2024 7

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What Can the Black Freedom Struggle and Palestinian Liberation Teach Each Other?

“I see promise in the connections between the 2020 protests against anti-Blackness and the 2023-2024 protests against Palestinian genocide,”...

08.09.2024 4

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The Violent “Othering” of Palestinians Has Political Roots

In my book, Black Bodies, White Gazes, I interrogate the white gaze, which I describe as a structural and habitual way of racially distorting the...

01.09.2024 2

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George Yancy