Sostre laid a foundation for contemporary Black anarchism and prison abolition. A new biography finally tells his story.

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Davis gained celebrity in 1969 when the UC Regents, headed by then-governor Ronald Reagan, fired her as a UCLA philosophy ...

UConn’s Humanities Institute (UCHI) held a Fellow’s Talk in Homer Babbidge Library on Wednesday, March 12. The talk was titled “The Fire This Time: Ronald L. Fair’s ‘Many Thousand Gone,’ a Forgotten ...

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He whispered in my ear that he was conducting this Northern campaign to fight segregated housing and to challenge the power ... Davis, born Oct. 13, 1932, is remembered as the first Black woman ...