Tommy Curry and The Man [Still] Not!

We were joined in this edition of iMWiL! once again by Dr. Tommy Curry for a part two of our discussion of his book The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. We discussed his work and its challenge to conventional and other forms theoretical approaches to the study of race, class,…

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That Time Rutgers-Newark Black Students Took Over Conklin Hall 50 Years Ago, Renaming It “Liberation Hall”

Pictured above: Members of the Rutgers University Black Organization of Students (BOS) unfurl a banner renaming Rutgers-Newark’s Conklin Hall in February of 1969. A little less than two years after the Newark rebellion of July 1967 and months before Fred Hampton’s assassination in December of 1969, Black student activists took over Conklin Hall at Rutgers-Newark….

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