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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

Care work and parenting work are not an accessory to abolition — they are core to the struggle itself.

19.11.2024 10

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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 8

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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 5

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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 4

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Kant’s Ideas Shaped Human Rights Theories. How Do We Contend With His Racism?

This year, the 300th anniversary of the birth of German philosopher Immanuel Kant was commemorated. Born on April 22, 1724, Kant was a significant...

06.07.2024 10

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Juneteenth Reminds Us That “Black Freedom” Is an Ongoing Project

The concept of complete freedom from the weight of racial oppression/anti-Blackness has always been a dream for Black people in the United States,...

19.06.2024 10

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Palestinian Graduate: Protesters Show Courage for Gaza as Leaders Show Cowardice

Israel’s likely war crimes and genocide in Gaza since October — as well as its brutality in the decades preceding its recent attacks — are...

09.06.2024 20

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Universities Have Failed Their Democratic Mission by Repressing Gaza Protests

Universities are using draconian measures against student protesters who refuse to deem Palestinian suffering “unreal.”

10.05.2024 30

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This Black History Month, Let’s Recognize the Vitality of Black Feminist Thought

“As a Black feminist philosopher, I have come to expect practices, strategies — not answers,” scholar Jeanine Weekes Schroer told me in a recent...

27.02.2024 4

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Honoring Emmett Till Means Never Looking Away From the Horror of White Supremacy

James Baldwin once said Black history is emboldening because “it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.” His...

26.02.2024 20

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What Is It About Black History That Frightens the Hell Out of the Far Right?

In February 1926, the Black historian and scholar Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week, which later became known as Black History Month....

24.02.2024 10

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Black Existentialism Brings Philosophy to Bear on Our White Supremacist World

As we celebrate Black History Month, it is important that we not think of that history as complete. The Black diaspora constitutes a complex...

21.02.2024 10

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What Can Deaf Philosophy Teach the World — and How Will It Change It?

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...

11.02.2024 30

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MLK Was a Philosopher of Hope. He Reminds Us That Apathy Is a Dead End.

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,...

15.01.2024 20

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How Can Philosophy Speak to a World in Crisis? The Answer May Lie in Our Bodies.

The body is precarious. That is, as embodied people, we are all precarious, interdependent, fragile, vulnerable. As much as neoliberalism would like...

07.01.2024 7

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Clinging to Whiteness Offers False Safety – True Liberation Requires Upending It

In 1962, James Baldwin wrote “A Letter to My Nephew.” The letter communicates Baldwin’s anger, his frustration, his commitment to radical...

25.12.2023 4

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What Would Malcolm X Say About Gaza and Black Resistance in the US Today?

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 —...

23.12.2023 7

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