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Social Media x Activism: The Spatial Distribution of the Occupy Campaign
Graphic by Drs Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon and Ning Wang | Oxford Internet Institute.Reference: Gonzalez-Bailon, S., Borge-Holthoefer, J., Rivero, A. and Moreno, Y. (2011) The Dynamics of Protest...
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#FemFuture, History & Loving Each Other Harder
The “#FemFuture: Online Revolution” report was released this week. Organized by Courtney Martin and Vanessa Valenti, and funded in part by Barnard College, the report builds “….on a 2012 convening...
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Idle No More, Songs for Life Vol. 1 Available for Download
Idle No More: Songs for Life Vol. 1 “is the first of an ongoing series of free downloadable compilations of songs by artists who support the vision of Idle No More, Indigenous and allies.”...
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She Is Trayvon Martin (via The Daily Beast)
Le cinéaste tchadien était présent à la salle de l’UGC de Bordeaux pour présenter Grigris (2013). Pendant le débat qui a suivi la projection, il s’est agacé de devoir répondre sur l’usage du français...
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An Open Letter of Love to Black Students: #BlackLivesMatter
We are Black professors.We are daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, cousins, nieces, nephews, godchildren, grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, and mothers.We’re writing to tell you we see you and hear...
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Bree Newsome vs. Dixie
Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scales the flag pole in front of South Carolina’s courthouse in Charleston, and takes down the Confederate flag at dawn on June 27, 2015. She is...
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Grace Lee Boggs 100
#Detroit is dear to me but I don’t do enough there. I want to do and learn more about the city, the organizers, the way Detroit activism connects to the Midwest, the way its blackness and radical...
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Patton Profiles Michele Wallace in “Daring to Speak of Black Women”
Wallace, the daughter of the celebrated artist Faith Ringgold, had grown up among black female activists. She blasted racist tropes, which depicted black women as fat nannies, wanton sluts,...
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“I Dismantle the Ivory Tower By…”| Reflecting on the #DismantlingIvoryTower...
Black queer beauties at #amc2015. 😙😘😎 #dismantlingivorytower (l-r: Van Bailey, Kai Green, Moya Bailey, Jessica Marie Johnson) Snapped June 18, 2015, Detroit, MI, #AMC2015 These lovelies. How did this...
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Over at @AAIHS – Charnesia Corley & a Storify for the #blkwomensyllabus
ICYMI – Daina Ramey Berry started #blkwomensyllabus in response to the assault of Charnesia Corley by Texas police. Black women and those who love black women continued it: “What unfolded was an...
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Over at @AAIHS –“Concede Nothing” – How to Remember a Storm Ten Years Later
How do you remember a storm? DO “concede nothing.” What is “resilience” in the face of Katrina? What is survival in a black intellectual history of the New World? ICYMI – Read the entire essay:...
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Over @Medium – Black Love Post-Death | Princeton African American Studies...
“I am late. I write this response in the wake of the Ferguson Is the Future conference hosted by Princeton AAS, post- the quiet around #SandraBland (addressed beautifully and painfully in a recent...
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Over @Medium – Doing the Work | Princeton African American Studies Response...
I wrote a thing…a final, short reflection for the inaugural Princeton University Department of African American Studies Response Series on #BlackLivesMatter. It posted a week or two ago, but seems...
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REVIVAL: A Year of Black Feminist Self-Possession | NOLA Wildseeds
The Nola Wildseeds are at it again… “REVIVAL builds on the success and energy of Wildseeds’ May 2015 Black Futures Fest in New Orleans (http://blackfuturesfest.strikingly.com) – an Afrofuturist arts...
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Spence on Black Studies in the 21st Century
Spence: We’re now seeing a wave of black student protest that we haven’t seen since the years right before Black Studies 2.0 took hold. What might Black Studies 3.0 look like? What should it look...
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Dillard University Police Pepper Spray Student Protesters
ICYMI: Protesters clashed with police outside a US Senate debate Wednesday in Louisiana that included former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke. Read about it: David Duke debate appearance at historic...
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Kelley –“We Are Not What We Seem”: Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition...
Robin D. G. Kelley, “We Are Not What We Seem”: Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South, The Journal of American History, Vol. 80, No. 1 (Jun., 1993), pp. 75-112 Source: “We Are...
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