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Why We Still Need to Talk About Race Despite widespread repression of antiracism, talking about what race is reveals how it functions to facilitate and justify unequal power relations

The banning of books, eliminating DEI in the workplace and in college courses, defunding programs and research related to race - it’s all intentional. The government does not want you to know our racist past. And that is why we still need to talk about race.

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Kwame Ture’s words from over 30 years ago seem rather relevant to the uprisings we are seeing now in Minneapolis and across the country. To learn more about Black power and resisting racism, get notified about launch updates to the Black Star Rising communiversity at BlackStarRising.com

12.02.2026 15:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Teaching Hidden Histories - Lessons from the Brilliant Sonia Sanchez The poet was among the first professors to teach at the first Black Studies Department established at San Franciso State College

Before Black Studies was institutionalized, it was taught by poets, artists, and cultural workers willing to risk everything to tell the truth. Sonia Sanchez was one of them. Her story reminds us that Black Studies was built by movement, not permission.

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10.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Black history is not a sidebar to American history — it is the foundation of how this country was built. Our upcoming course, Banned Black History, traces the roots of race and power in the U.S.

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05.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What People Get Wrong About Black History Month? One Hundred Years of Teaching the Truth

If you think Black History Month was handed to us — or that “Black history 365” is a new idea — this story might change how you see February altogether.

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#BlackHistoryMonth #CarterGWoodson #BlackHistory

03.02.2026 15:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There’s a reason Black history is being erased from classrooms. These books push back with truth about how this country was built.

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If history feels incomplete, that’s not an accident. Systems of power decide what gets taught — and what gets erased.
Our upcoming course, Banned Black History goes where textbooks won’t. Sign up for launch updates when the Black Star Rising communiversity opens in February: www.BlackStarRising.com

29.01.2026 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Rise and Fall of the Internet As a Politicized Space for Black Art I was six years old when I logged on for the first time. It was 2001, fresh after the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. There were plenty of pop-ups comparing President George W. Bush’s IQ with just about …

"In 2019, the spaces for Black folk to rest and roost on the internet were plentiful. By 2025, those places blinked out like starlight."

The Rise and Fall of the Internet As a Politicized Space for Black Art | Steven Underwood
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The Early Black History Movement Didn't Ask for Permission From DuBois to Freedom Schools - we have a long tradition of self-determined education to light the path forward

Before Black history was taught in classrooms, Black communities built their own institutions, journals, freedom schools, and study networks to fight miseducation and preserve the truth of their history.

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#BlackHistory #WEBDuBois #CarterGWoodson

27.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Organizers are calling for Governor Tim Walz to issue a statewide eviction moratorium to protect people who are unable to work due to ICE‘s terror campaign

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Sudan war rages into third year and foreign actors are still fueling violence Sudan's war enters its third year but has slipped out of the headlines — while the flood of arms threatens spillover and prolongs fighting

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Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

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The New York Shooting That Defined an Era On a mild December day in 1984, a man named Bernie Goetz shot four Black teen-agers on a subway. The incident galvanized the city. Are we still living in its wake?

The New York Shooting That Defined an Era | Adam Gopnik

On a mild December day in 1984, a man named Bernie Goetz shot four Black teen-agers on a subway. The incident galvanized the city. Are we still living in its wake?
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17.01.2026 14:41 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2

As we honor the life of #ClaudetteColvin may we learn from our mistakes. The movement REFUSED to defend her. Why? Because colorism, classism, elitism, rumors of pregnancy. Colvin was deemed "inappropriate," & many wouldn't defend a Black girl for the same reasons today. RIP #respectability

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