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Why repressing anti-racist protests constitutes defense of White supremacy
Jun 18 2020
By Joshua Bloom, co-author of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther PartyDenial of systemic racism continues following Derrick Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd. A friend told me that recent attacks by police on White protesters proved police aren’t racist. Nothing c
Recommended Reading: Black Lives and Community in America
Jun 02 2020
The work of addressing society’s core challenges—whether they be persistent inequality, a failing education system, or global climate change—can be accelerated when scholarship assumes its role as an agent of engagement and democracy. The books on the following reading list help provide context on b
Black History Makers & Risk Takers: Revolutionaries
Feb 05 2020
In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a pioneering black intellectual and the son of former slaves, recognizing "the dearth of information on the accomplishments of blacks . . . founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now called the Association for the Study of African American Li
Banned Books Week at UC Press
Sep 24 2019
September 23 - 28 is 2019's Banned Books Week. Held annually since 1982 and sponsored by the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Association, Banned Books Week is celebrated "in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or u