For Gandhi, whose birth anniversary is Monday, Oct. 2, nonviolent resistance meant placing one’s own body in harm’s way to expose social injustices, which made it a powerful political tool.
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The process of decolonising research methodology is an ethical, ontological and political exercise rather than simply one of approach and ways of producing knowledge.
Displaying Confederate statues in a carefully curated museum would help end a toxic debate about the difference between remembering and venerating.
To pitch an alternative timeline, you first have to believe a particular narrative of real history. That’s where things can go wrong.
Fifty years of the Caribbean Carnival in Toronto has had a significant impact on Canada’s cultural institutions. It’s also helped educate Canadians about Black history.
Thousands marched in silence against racial violence after a riot left hundreds of blacks dead and thousands homeless. The demands of black people in 2017 remain the same as they did in 1917.
The 19th-century social gospel, which emphasized how Jesus’ ethical teachings could address poverty and inequality, continues to live on in the activism of the religious left.
Research shows how politics can easily halt reforms that require time to take effect.
One of the lesser known demands of Black Lives Matter is the right to a safe space to celebrate Black Queer Lives. This year’s Blockorama party in Toronto is evidence the movement is progressing.
It took only 30 minutes to plunge Toronto’s queer community into civil war. All across North America, Pride parades are debating police brutality.
It’s important to shift educational discourse in and around Africa in a more equitable, representative direction.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille ‘s Twitter rant about colonialism caused an uproar as it brought back memories of a brutal and violent time in South Africa.
Ignorant and hateful people are not behind the production of racist ideas, as Americans are taught so often during Black History Month.
As a privileged mainstream protest movement rises, it should heed the experiences and triumphs of its more radical counterparts
Americans enjoy a right to free speech, and some public figures really exercise that right. The Constitution might not protect them the way they think it does, though.
After Donald Trump’s victory, a scholar says the biblical prophets can help show us the way forward: Just as there is no peace without justice, there is no healing without grief.
Swinburne political scientist Bryan Cranton looks at why so many experts got the US Election so wrong
Two major trials in the killings of black victims in South Carolina start this week. Learn about the state’s past and present struggle with racial violence in this roundup.
Do you feel as if the moderators keep asking the same questions of the presidential candidates? Our panel has some fresh ideas.
Will the candidates acknowledge the Black Lives Matter platform during the debate in St. Louis? Millennial voters will be listening.
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Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor, Sociology, University of Alberta
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Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of History, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
