Fire Suppression, the Carceral State, and Black Ecological Knowledge
As I write, major wildfires burn in the state of California. A mixture of droughts, human-altered landscapes, dense vegetation, and
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Black Studies
The Contours of Black Studies in American Public Schools
Jonathan Zimmerman, a historian of education at the University of Pennsylvania, recently published an op-ed in the Washington Post about
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The Power of Black Motherhood during COVID-19 and the Uprisings
Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read
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Mapping a Plan for Reparations in the Twenty-First Century
As the U.S. reckons with systemic racism in the wake of global protests over the murder of George Floyd, Breonna
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The Radical and Transnational Roots of Black History Month in Britain
In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, announced
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