Attica: The Present and the Recent Past
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today
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Racial Violence
Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books,
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Teaching in an Uprising: Readings on Race and Democracy
Since March, I’ve been teaching an introductory social sciences seminar which has the thematic focus of “race and democracy.” We
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Ida Taught Me
In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She
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Steeped in the Blood: On The May 15th, 1970 Jackson State Killings
On the night of May 14, 1970, Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green made their way to Alexander Hall, a
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