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Black Queer Women and Femmes Fight for Housing Rights in Brooklyn

October 12, 2020October 19, 2020 Emily Batiste #Autoethnographies, Activism, Black Queers, class, COVID-19, race, racism, student activism

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

Kwame Nkrumah and Decolonial Imagination

October 9, 2020October 13, 2020 Dan Magaziner Ghana

Historian Jeffrey Ahlman talks with Dan Magaziner about Nkrumahism’s shifting forms, and its influence on contemporary decolonization movements. We have

Mapping a Plan for Reparations in the Twenty-First Century

October 8, 2020October 13, 2020 Ashley Dennis capitalism, Politics, reparations

As the U.S. reckons with systemic racism in the wake of global protests over the murder of George Floyd, Breonna

The Disappearance of Eve and Sall: Escaping Slavery in North Carolina

October 6, 2020October 4, 2020 Christy Hyman Black Ecologies, freedom, fugitivity, geography, race, slavery

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. Between 1829

Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning

October 5, 2020October 4, 2020 Barbara Lau and Robin Kirk Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, education, Gender, race, racism, Resistance, sexuality, South

Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.