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The Visual Documentation of Racist Violence in America

November 4, 2020October 31, 2020 Mary Niall Mitchell Civil War, photography, race, racism, slavery

Speaking to a Washington Post reporter recently, attorney Ben Crump (who represents the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Sean

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#SayHerName: Seeking Justice for Breonna Taylor

November 2, 2020October 31, 2020 Sasha Ann Panaram police violence, policing, race, racism, social justice, white supremacy

More than six months after Breonna Taylor’s murder and in the wake of former detective Brett Hankison’s indictment on three

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Enslaved African Americans hoe and plow the earth and cut piles of sweet potatoes on a South Carolina plantation, circa 1862-3 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress)

Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’: A Blueprint for Reparations

September 22, 2020September 13, 2020 Verene A. Shepherd #CapitalismandSlavery, Anticolonialism, Caribbean, reparations

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner.

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Eric Williams’ Foundational Work on Slavery, Industry, and Wealth

September 21, 2020September 13, 2020 Katie Donington #CapitalismandSlavery, slavery, wealth

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner.

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En tierra moribunda: más allá de la toxicidad en una comunidad Afromexicana

September 16, 2020September 17, 2020 Jayson Maurice Porter & Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez #BlackEcologies, Black Ecologies, environment, environmentalism

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. Una madrugada

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