The Legacy of the 1968 Rebellion for Today’s Protests in ‘Chocolate City’
In 1968, Washington Post journalists Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood named police brutality as one of the factors motivating protestors
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Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books,
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‘Island on Fire’: A New Book about the Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Confinement and Disease from Slavery to the COVID-19 Pandemic
As many college students as well as others have moved back home during the current pandemic people’s houses are feeling
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A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery
In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery
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