February 9, 2022
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February 3, 2022
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January 17, 2022
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January 9, 2022
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February 12, 2018
—Andy Urban
Putting black history and immigration history into conversation with each other acknowledges how U.S. migration policies were developed and debated with both internal and external migrants in mind.
February 28, 2017
—Aida Levy-Hussen
Commemorating Black History Month with extemporized non-sequiturs, Trump’s rejoinder to African American appeals for remembrance and recognition is a turn away from the foundational social premises—good faith, the valuing of history, the idea of a public sphere—that make such desire speakable in the first place.
February 25, 2017
—Nicholas Buccola
For Douglass, the fundamental principle at stake was not the rule of law, but the natural rights of the individual. After all, the rule of law is not worth loving for its own sake, but rather because we deem it to be a crucial safeguard of our rights.
February 1, 2017
—Gerald Horne
African American history provides a textbook for resistance against oppressors and points in a similar direction: that is, to be effective in the U.S., resistance—dialectically—must be global.