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Historian Elizabeth Todd-Breland discusses how schools have become a key site of struggle amid rising fascism in the US.
“What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.
Black anti-fascists have long warned about creeping fascism, from slavery to mass incarceration to ICE terror.
Without this history, students may see Black thinkers as footnotes rather than world-historical contributors.
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Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses his new book Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men.
I deeply value free speech and debate. The watchlist created by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is anathema to both.
Curricula that challenge oppression are being shut down. How do we resist?
Trump isn’t even trying to hide his authoritarianism within social acceptability.
The racist upswell in the US looks “clearer from the outside,” says South African philosopher Nuraan Davids.
Censorship is an act of cowardice and a direct refusal of the mirror I hold up to the US’s racist past and present.
Israel must “shed Zionism, just as South Africa abandoned Afrikaner nationalist ideology,” Muhammad Ali Khalidi says.
Democracy-destroying forces thrive off militarism. We have to resist both.
Literary scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.
Let’s draw on the defiant wisdom of Frederick Douglass as Trump carries out a blitzkrieg against democracy in the US.
To navigate these terrible times, we need Audre’s Lorde’s audacity: Protect the public sphere. Refuse to be silenced.
The right wing has tried to distort critical race theory. This Black History Month, let’s reflect on what it really is.