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Locating Black Queer Pasts

Black queer histories—those that index the forms of social life that have flourished in the shadows created by state-sponsored violence,

This post is a rebuttal to Patrick Rael’s “Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration.” Dear Professor

We’re learning a lot these days about the historical roots of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander’s wildly successful book, The New

On December 23, 1739, Captain Quao of the Windward Maroons penned an “X” and swore a blood oath to formally

The issue that occasions this post is the NAACP’s recent call for a moratorium on charter schools until the charter