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OF RACIAL/COLOR SCHEMA AND BRITISH-AMERICAN RACIAL COLONIALISM

A reparations discourse with all its unfulfilled claims is still an open point of contention for those whose ancestors were used to create the wealth which the British royal family still enjoys. When Meghan Markle [...]

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“Until America Does Right by Black Women, Indigenous People, the Dispossessed…”

There is a line at the end of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1982) when Celie delivers a curse to Mister: “Until you do right by me, everything you think about (everything you touch) will [...]

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POLICE VIOLENCE, THE PERFORATED BLACK BODY AND THE IM/POSSIBILITY OF ESCAPE

The most recent public case of the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot in the back on Sunday, August 23, 2020, in the presence of his children, who were sitting in his car [...]

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Kwame Ture and the Global Black Power Movement*

I still love Frantz Fanon’s opening line from his chapter “On National Culture” in his classic The Wretched of the Earth (Penguin, 1967): “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it, [...]

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Honoring Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020)

Citation for and Introduction of Kamau Brathwaite’s W.E.B. Dubois Award at The Tenth National Black Writers’ Conference, with Toni Morrison Nobel Prize Winning Author as Honorary Chair Medgar Evers College, Saturday March 27, 2010 Tidalectics! [...]

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