The Whole World Is Watching
This post was imagined in collaboration with Camille Owens, who tweets @camillesowens. When Walter Scott was murdered by a cop in
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Finding My Brother’s Keeper
I don’t often hear from my brother Maurice, but when I do, I realize within minutes of the conversation and
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Time, Space, and Memory at Whitney Plantation
On February 28, 2015, the last day of Black History Month 2015 (or Black Future Month as the #blacklivesmatter and
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First an episode from nineteenth-century Brazil: in 1895 Raimundo Nina Rodrigues, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Bahia in
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