Kanye West 
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SOURCE: Vox
12/1/2022
Pamela Nadell: US May be at High Tide of Antisemitism
Antisemitism is less socially acceptable than in Henry Ford's day, but it's become much more acceptable since the rise of Donald Trump. Has America reached a tipping point where conspiracy theories and collective slanders of Jews are mainstreamed? Also feat. Kathleen Belew and Deborah Lipstadt.
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SOURCE: Harper's Bazaar
11/16/2022
How Kanye West Uses the Language of Black Liberation to Serve White Supremacy
by Ashley D. Farmer
"West’s brand of Black Power is preoccupied with conspicuous consumption and wealth accumulation. Becoming a billionaire was not what the Black Panthers had in mind."
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SOURCE: UCONN Magazine
Accessed 1/29/19
No Kanye, That's Not How it Happened
History professor Manisha Sinha’s history lessons tell the truth about slavery in the United States.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
10-13-18
Kanye West, Donald Trump, and the Truth About Chicago
by Jelani Cobb
Blaming violence in Chicago on the Democratic Party or welfare is nonsensical.
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SOURCE: Time
9-30-18
Kanye West calls for the abolition of the 13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5-7-18
I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom.
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SOURCE: NYT
5-3-18
The Historian Behind Slavery Apologists Like Kanye West
His name: Ulrich B. Phillips, Columbia University history professor at the turn off the 20th century.
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SOURCE: Vox
5-4-18
Kanye West’s Harriet Tubman tweets show how little we know about her history
by Kate Clifford Larson
I’m a Harriet Tubman historian. There’s a lot that West got wrong.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
5-1-18
What Experts Say About the Real History in Kanye West's Tweets on Republicans, Democrats and Race
The history’s more complicated than he realizes.
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SOURCE: The Root
11-5-13
Kanye West’s Ego Can’t Change History
by Elon James White
Wearing a symbol of hate and calling it artistic integrity proves that the rapper is more ignorant than many already thought he was.
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