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Another Look Into Dana Schutz’s “Open Casket”

May 10, 2017May 13, 2017 Robyn Autry art, museums

Recently, I visited the Whitney Museum’s Biennial at its new location in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. I was there

Saturday session at the 2017 Organization of American Historians meeting. Photo: processhistory.org.

Black Rage at the Organization of American Historians

The theme of this year’s Organization of American Historians conference in New Orleans was circulation. For black communities beyond academia,

Women Picturing Revolution: An Interview with Lesly Deschler-Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago

April 21, 2017April 24, 2017 L. Jonathan Collier Black women, Public History, racism

This month I interviewed Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago about their event Women Picturing Revolution: Focus on Africa and

Afro-German during the Third Reich. Photo: Propaganda-Pravada.

The Erasure of People of African Descent in Nazi Germany

April 18, 2017April 21, 2017 Jaimee A. Swift Racial Violence, racism, violence

Recently, Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer made some peculiar and offensive comments comparing Syrian leader President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical

Police Brutality and Racism in Germany

April 17, 2017April 20, 2017 Eddie Bruce-Jones African Diaspora, police brutality, police violence

Oury Jalloh, a man in his thirties from Sierra Leone, had applied for asylum in Germany and was living in