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Robert Rayford, State Violence, and AIDS in Black America

In the forty-one years since doctors first recognized what would become known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among gay

In 1972, I was a senior in high school at Gary West Side. It was an exciting year! All Hoosiers

Instead of “Unjust to the South” stamped on the inside of our books, we have “promotes/ensures patriotic education” typed into

Recent cases of Black hair/style regulation and punishment in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States reveal

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study