“Thinking Black” Against the Carceral State: Angela Davis and Prisoner Defense Campaigns
The stirring directive sounded like the denouement of a legal thriller: “I am going to ask you, if you will,
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Black Identity
Beyond Respectability: A New Book on Black Female Public Intellectuals
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa
As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these
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Fugitivity, Refusal, and Visual Captivity: A Review of Tina Campt’s Listening to Images
I will never forget the unnerving feeling that washed over me when I first saw Sandra Bland’s mug shot circulating
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A Reverence for Hope: On Struggle, Faith, and Persistence
“Poetry is not a luxury.” — Audre Lorde America horrifies me. Its savagery and vulgarity. Its appetite for racial terror.
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