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SPEECH: Frederick Douglass on John Brown, 1860
20 Oct 2021
In an 1860 speech commemorating radical abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper’s Ferry, Frederick Douglass argued that slavery would only end if the slave owner feared the violent retribution
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STATEMENT: Black Caucus Protest at the African Studies Association, Montreal, October, 1969
13 Oct 2021
Black challenges to white control of African Studies at the 1969 African Studies Association meeting in Montreal exposed the deeply entrenched racism within, and the imperialist leanings of, th
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PROCLAMATION: LIBERTY OR DEATH, JEAN JACQUES DESSALINES, 1804
06 Oct 2021
This proclamation by Jean Jacques Dessalines, the first leader of a free Haiti, is one of the most radical declarations of freedom in history.
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ESSAY: The War Aims of World War I and World War II and Their Relations to the Darker Peoples of the World, Merze Tate, 1943
29 Sep 2021
A 1943 Merze Tate essay provides a trenchant critique of the false hope of peace offered by the white west to “the darker peoples” of the world.
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SPEECH: China and Africa, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1959
22 Sep 2021
In 1959, on his ninety-first birthday, W. E. B.
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ESSAY: Racial Prejudice in Cuba
15 Sep 2021
Contemporary conversations about racism in Cuba appear to have forgotten what it was like for Africans on the island republic before the Revolution.
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RETURN TO THE SOURCE: The US Military Swarms Over Africa
08 Sep 2021
Grim predictions about the U.S. military occupation of Africa are realized.
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Document: Notes of a Prison Collective: Marion Political Collective, 1976
25 Aug 2021
In 1976, prisoners in the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois wrote a collective document explaining the status of the prisoner within the prison—and the role of the prison
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MANIFESTO: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971
18 Aug 2021
Black August: Remembering the Attica prisoner demands as the 50th anniversary approaches.
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DOCUMENT: James Weldon Johnson, Self-Determining Haiti, 1920
15 Jul 2021
Published in 1920, Self-Determining Haiti remains a remarkable example of investigative journalism and advocacy and a damning testament to the perils and pitfalls of US military interventi