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The History of Sexual Policing

August 19, 2022August 12, 2022 Charlotte Rosen 0 Comments
#StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Police, prisons, sexual violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us A few years back,

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From Police Power to Police Practice

August 18, 2022August 12, 2022 DeAnza A. Cook 0 Comments
#StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Police, prisons

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us The United States of

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The Spanish Slave Ship Carlotta “Denounced” By a Shark

June 22, 2022August 4, 2022 Aderivaldo Ramos de Santana Black Atlantic, Brazil, Carlotta, Haiti, Historiography, Shark, Slave Ship, Spain

On September 4, 2022, we remember an important date in the history of the Brazilian nation: 172 years since the

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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The Consequences of USCT Soldiering

May 26, 2022May 25, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Civil War, Pension System, reparations, United States Colored Infantry, United States Colored Troop, USCI, USCT

Solomon Wilson, a Thirty-First United States Colored Infantry (USCI) soldier, died in a regimental hospital on August 6, 1864. An

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