A ‘Club’ No Black Woman Wants to Join: Confronting the Aftermath of Black Death
I have found myself having to write, yet again, in the midst of racial, political, and social tumult. Recent events
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Racial Violence
“Americans Have Carried American Hatred”: Black Intellectuals, Imperialism and Policing
“Don’t you see no connection between atom-bomb-dropping in Japan and shin-kicking in Virginia?” asked Simple. “No direct connection,” I said.
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Ida B. Wells, Police Violence, and the Legacy of Lynching
The recent police shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota bring to the surface, yet again,
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On Faithful Witnessing
Today we’re featuring a guest post by Yomaira Figueroa, assistant professor of Afro Diaspora Studies in the Department of English
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Why We Must Remember: Reflecting on the Charleston Massacre One Year Later
On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina,
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