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Recent debates have centered on whether it’s appropriate to compare Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.
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Before the world knew what intersectionality was, the scholar, writer and activist was living it, arguing not just for Black liberation, but for the rights of women and queer and transgender people as well.
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The scholar and activist has spent more than 50 years working for social justice. This summer, society started to catch up.
The veteran civil rights campaigner on growing up in segregated America, the opportunity of the Black Lives Matter movement and what inspires her to keep fighting
Greg Tate explores the shifting struggles for black equality – and identity – presented in the Swedish television archives (filmed from 1967 - 1975) originally released as a film in 2011 and currently streaming on Amazon Prime and YouTube.
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Civil rights icon Angela Davis talks to Frank Barat (editor of her latest book Freedom is a Constant Struggle) about institutionalized racism, animal rights, prison abolition and the killing of Ahmaud Arbery
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