Black Education, Racism, and Class: Reflections from a Charter High School Graduation
This May I attended the commencement ceremony for a young cousin who was one of 117 graduates from an overwhelmingly black charter high
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Working on the Verge of “Campus Carry”
One of several nightmarish outcomes of Kansas' swing to the Tea Party Republican right following the presidential election of Barack Obama, the state
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Why Labor Historians Should Remember Leslie Brown
Even if you did not know her personally, you should mourn Professor Leslie Brown, who passed away earlier this month. She was many
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The Million Man March at Twenty: Revisiting a Spectacle of “Atonement,” Class Stewardship, and Patriarchy
The Million Man March commemorates its twentieth-year anniversary this month, which historians argue had problematic racial, class, and gender politics. Clarence Lang explores
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On Ferguson, Missouri: History, Protest, and “Respectability”
It is difficult to write about the situation in the black working-class community of Ferguson, Missouri, which began last week with the police
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AFSCME, the United Negro College Fund, and Koch Money – Meanings for the Black Public Sphere
Lee A. Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), recently announced that his union is severing ties
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Celebrating MLK Day: Dream Defenders, Moral Mondays, and the Fight for 15
Another national observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is upon us. I know that I’m speaking to the choir here when I
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The Latest Strike Against Academic Freedom
I wrote an entry for LaborOnline in September concerning a faculty member at the University of Kansas. David Guth, an associate professor of
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Race, Class, Labor, and the (Not So) Incognito Controversy
I’ve long appreciated how athletics mirror and shape broader social relations (Consider, for instance, C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary, which famously approached cricket
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The Perils of Faculty Speech: Revisiting Campus Labor and the Corporate University
This past summer, I organized a LaborOnline forum on “Campus Labor and the Corporate University” (July 9, 2013), which featured commentary from James