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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Race
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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Colorism as Racism: Garvey, Du Bois and the Other Color Line
One hundred years ago this month, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and thirteen associates gathered in a Harlem basement to found the
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Ideas in Unexpected Places: Why a Marketplace Intellectual Life Still Matters
This post is a condensed version of Davarian Baldwin‘s keynote address at the 2017 AAIHS conference at Vanderbilt University. ***
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The Young Historians Project in Britain, Part II: An Interview with Aleema Gray and Amelia Francis
This month I interviewed Aleema Gray and Amelia Francis about their involvement with the Young Historians Project, a non-profit organization
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