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Robin D.G. Kelley
Why Cornel West’s Tenure Fight Matters
10 Mar 2021
Harvard’s administrators completely miss the point of tenure, which was created to allow scholars to do their work, speak their truth, and stand up for something without risking their jobs.
Robin D.G. Kelley
The Freedom Struggle Is a Labor Struggle, Then and Now
06 Jan 2021
Black labor militants, many of whom were Communists, were the key to building the CIO in the South.
Robin D.G. Kelley
Births of a Nation, Redux: Surveying Trumpland with Cedric Robinson
18 Nov 2020
What Robinson identified as “the rewhitening of America” a century ago is what we’re seeing play out today.
Robin D.G. Kelley
The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US
18 Mar 2020
The militant white supremacists of the current generation are either products of, or influenced by, the “third Klan” of the 1970s and 1980s.
Robin D.G. Kelley
Trump Says Go Back, We Say Fight Back
23 Nov 2016
by Robin D.G. Kelley The author writes: “I am not suggesting that white racism alone explains Trump’s victory. Nor am I dismissing the white working class’s very real economic grievances. It is not a…
Robin D.G. Kelley
What Does Black Lives Matter Want?
31 Aug 2016
by Robin D.G. Kelley “A Vision for Black Lives” is a plan for ending structural racism, saving the planet, and transforming the entire nation—not just black lives,” writes the author, a noted Black…
Robin D.G. Kelley
Black Study, Black Struggle
23 Mar 2016
by Robin D.G. Kelly Robin D.G. Kelley opened a debate published by the Boston Review. “The fully racialized social and epistemological architecture upon which the modern university is built cannot be…
Robin D.G. Kelley
Yes, I Said “National Liberation”
02 Mar 2016
by Robin D.G. Kelley Peace is not just the absence of violent warfare; peace is justice: No Justice – No Peace. In Palestine and in the U.S., what we seek is a new and better world, not just a…