“We’ll Hold The Police Accountable!”: The Useful Meaninglessnesses of Liberal-speak
It has been two years since Stephon Clark was killed in his grandmother’s backyard. Two years since Rev. Al Sharpton
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“If bitterness were a whetstone”: On Grief, History, and COVID-19
“Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.” -Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals The COVID-19 numbers are
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Disability: What Have Black People Got to Do with It?
*This piece is part of the Blackness, Disability, & Gender Identity Series organized by Vilissa Thompson. “What comes first for
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Art for the People’s Sake: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement
The past five years have brought numerous fifty-year Civil Rights and Black Power Movement commemorations to the fore. Last year,
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The 1917 Halifax Explosion and Structural Anti-Blackness in Times of Crisis
Last fall, two local researchers from Halifax, Nova Scotia published their original findings of racial disparities in the relief efforts
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