Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor
Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to
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Activism
The Complexities of Black Feminism in Europe
Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande’s powerful anthology of writings by feminists of African descent, To Exist is to Resist: Black
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En tierra moribunda: más allá de la toxicidad en una comunidad Afromexicana
*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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On Dying Land: the Afterlife of Toxicity in an Afromexican Community
*This post is part of our series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. A
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Centering the History of Black Women in the French Empire
Annette Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire offers a bold new path for reimagining
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