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Education

Leading While Black

An introduction to the special issue, “Teaching While Black”

April 28, 2022 • by Dwight A. McBride

Indeed, the sad truth is that many of the slights, insults, and aggressions experienced by the dedicated teachers collected here (I don’t think of the casual ugliness which many of us navigate as “micro-aggressions”) are duplicated within higher education’s administrative spaces....

Activism

On Coming to Terms

What form should a “post #BlackLivesMatter” movement take?

January 19, 2022 • by Christopher Paul Harris

BlackLivesMatter” world, it won’t be one where the current constellation of movement organizations simply disappear or become ineffective in their attempts to bring Black people closer to liberation....

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The Charlottesville Syllabus

Confronting the history and present of white supremacy in a college town

May 2, 2018 • by The Graduate Student Coalition for Liberation

12 AUGUST 2017 The Charlottesville Syllabus is a resource created by the Graduate Student Coalition for Liberation to be used to educate readers about the long history of white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia. While the resources selected and summaries written are by UVA graduate students, the Syllabus is not sanctioned by ...

Feature

African-American Intellectuals, Southern Democrats, and LaCroix Sparkling Water

Past Present Episode 113

January 11, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss a feud between African-American intellectuals Cornel West and Ta-Nehisi Coates, the electoral prospects for southern Democrats, and why LaCroix Sparkling Water has become an obsession.

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African-American Intellectuals, Southern Democrats, and LaCroix Sparkling Water

Education

Reading Black Reconstruction Today

April 19, 2017 • by Aaron Neber

My first encounter with W.E.B. Du Bois' Black Reconstruction in the America came over the same weekend that the US Department of Education, newly under the leadership of Betsy DeVos, tweeted: "Education must not simply teach - it must teach life. -- W.E.B. DeBois". The Education Department's blithe attempt to participate ...