Black Deaths and Black Mourning in the Time of Coronavirus
That coronavirus (COVID-19) is “the great equalizer” has quickly become an old and tired adage, rightly critiqued by scholars and
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Black history
Art for the People’s Sake: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement
The past five years have brought numerous fifty-year Civil Rights and Black Power Movement commemorations to the fore. Last year,
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‘A White Man Took Her’: Trauma, Loss, and Grief among the Enslaved
In November 1864, a formerly enslaved man named Peter Bumper and his fiance Bucinda Nelson had their marriage registered with
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Occupied Territory: An Author’s Response
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing
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Police Professionalization and the Institutionalization of Racist Repression
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing
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