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Revealing Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

Margaret A. Burnham’s poignant, innovative, and meticulously researched book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, brings to the fore an open American...
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A Simple Argument for Why Science Should Be for the Oppressed

Co-Editor’s Note: I composed the following short essay for an asynchronous online summer course in Philosophy of Science. The course is centered around presenting...
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Strong Black Nihilism and Existential Maturity: On Devon Johnson

Some books are so rich that it is difficult to articulate an entry point for discussion; any choice of a starting point seems to...
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Navigating the Apocalypse

A variety of ancient religious and cultural texts warn us about an apocalypse whereby the world ends following some sort of disastrous event(s) incurred...
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The Five Lives of Raya Dunayevskaya: Sources of Intersectional Marxism

The history of women thinkers is marked by enforced obsolescence, especially once male counterparts start working in the same terrain. Think of Hypatia or...
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A Reflection on Eva Kittay on Human Dignity

Eva Feder Kittay’s Learning from My Daughter presents an argument worth considering as notions of “anti-human” and “post-human” have gained currency. The daughter to...
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An Elegy for Bat-Ami Bar On

Bat-Ami Bar On was the Director of the Binghamton University’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Women, Gender, and...
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In Celebration of Margaret (Peg) Simons

Professor Emerita Margaret A. (Peg) Simons of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville is the recipient of the 2021 Eastern Society for Women in Philosophy...
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A Posthumous Evaluation of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois for Professor at——

February is Black History Month in the United States. The 23rd day of February 2022 is W.E.B. Du Bois’s 154th birthday.  It is fitting...
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The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2022 Award Winners

The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2022 recipients of the association’s awards for contributions to philosophical thought, literature, and mentorship: Frantz Fanon...