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Black Issues in Philosophy: A Conversation on The Black Panther

Prior to the release of The Black Panther, some well-intentioned whites on social media recommended whites to wait a week before going to see the...
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Black Issue in Philosophy: Understanding Togetherness in Difference in a Hateful World

“Wherever one thing stands,” Chinua Achebe (1989) argued, “something else must stand beside it,” because the world must necessarily be a shared space, one...

Celebrate Women in Philosophy!

The Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession is pleased to announce two new posters celebrating women in philosophy. These posters represent...

Anton Wilhelm Amo: The African Philosopher in 18th Century Europe

Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1700 – c. 1750) - born in West Africa, enslaved, and then gifted to the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel - became...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: The Frantz Fanon Foundation’s 2nd Rencontres

The Frantz Fanon Foundation celebrated its 10th Anniversary in the “2nd Rencontres” of the Foundation. The activity took place on December 8th, 2017 in...

Face Death: End Racism

“This stuff goes deep… But are we keeping quiet because we’re looking an enemy in the face, and it is us? We’re quiet because...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Response to “Australian Continental Philosophy”

At the end of November into the first week of December 2017, I had the good fortune of participating in the Australasian Society for...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Australian Continental Philosophy

By Bryan Mukandi I suspect that just about every Shona child who grew up in the Zimbabwe of the 1980s through to the mid-1990s grew...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Does Race Trump Gender? Intersectionality and Charles Mills

The recent issue of Critical Philosophy of Race (Vol 5. Issue 1) features a mini symposium on the work of renowned philosopher Charles Mills...
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Reflections on Tommy Curry

Part 1: Opinion I write this op-ed to express my view of Texas A&M University’s President Michael K. Young’s commentary on Professor Tommy Curry, which...