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Racial capitalism is insidious and malleable, and can adapt to nearly any political context.
To read In the Wake is to read a love letter to Black people in the everywhere of this world.
Mutual aid tends to expose the reality that people lack what they need, while also creating spaces to meet those needs and build a shared analysis.
Hubert Henry Harrison was a Black intellectual inferno, a warrior in the cause of a race- and class-based politics.
Israel has accelerated its plans to exploit Africa’s many political and economic opportunities, especially as the continent is now an open ground for renewed global attention.
