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Memory, Invisibility, & Power - Penn Law Review

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Memory, Invisibility, & Power - Penn Law Review

Introduction “The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.”1 When I teach constitutional law, I often encounter students who assume that constitutional interpretation is a simple reading of the Constitution’s text combined with the framers’ intent. That is what constitutional interpretation is, isn’t it? Jack Balkin’s Memory & Authority brilliantly shows how much more constitutional law…Read Article

“There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.” — James Weldon Johnson

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“There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.” — James Weldon Johnson

“Nothing will do more to change that mental attitude and raise his status than a demonstration of intellectual parity by the Negro through the production of literature and art.” – James Weldon Johnson, preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) It’s his birthday today. An extremely important figure in 20th century American culture, James Weldon Johnson was born in 1871 and died in 1938. He is often lumped in with the Harlem Renaissance,…Read Article

Should Black Houston care about international issues?

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There are two schools of thought regarding African Americans’ concerns about international issues.One is that Black people are too focused on “domestic” issues to pay attention to events around the globe. Two, Black people in the U.S. today, like past giants (W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and others), are more aware of global issues than some social scientists think, and recognize how those issues im…Du Bois · Du Bois Read Article

The Left-Wing Activists Who Want to Change American Politics

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On a Saturday afternoon in late November, around 30 people gather in an old storefront in lower Manhattan. The narrow space looks like it once housed a cozy coffee shop but is now crammed with office equipment, protest signs and mismatched folding chairs. It’s the headquarters of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, or NYC-DSA — the organization’s largest chapter in the country. As people stream in, they are greeted…Du Bois · Du Bois Read Article

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