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From Police Power to Police Practice

August 18, 2022August 12, 2022 DeAnza A. Cook #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Police, prisons

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us The United States of

Online Roundtable–Anne Gray Fischer’s ‘The Streets Belong To Us’

August 9, 2022August 10, 2022 AAIHS Editors #StreetsBelongToUs, carceral state, policing

August 15-22, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Urban

A Mortal Man’s Heart: Kendrick Lamar and Black Masculinity

May 13, 2022May 12, 2022 Zion McThomas black boys, Gender, hip hop, Kendrick Lamer, masculinity

We haven’t heard from Kendrick Lamar (as far as solo projects) since the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning album DAMN. Kendrick

Robert Rayford, State Violence, and AIDS in Black America

May 11, 2022May 10, 2022 Dan Royles HIV-AIDS, policing, Robert Rayford, St. Louis, youth

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

The Killing of Charles Bush by Las Vegas Police

May 6, 2022May 4, 2022 Tyler D. Parry Charles Bush, Las Vegas, Nevada, police violence, Protest

In the early morning of July 31, 1990, Terri Siddoway left her apartment and journeyed toward a nearby convenience store