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Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality

May 7, 2019May 5, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Gender, Jim Crow, race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a

Between Radicalism and Repression: Walter Rodney’s Revolutionary Praxis

May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, Black political thought, Black radicalism, colonialism, Neoimperialism, repression, Walter Rodney

On June 13, 1980, the Black Marxist, Pan-Africanist, historian, and scholar-activist Walter Rodney was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana.1 That year, students

The Trauma of Racial Violence in Frederick Douglass’s America

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Kay Wright Lewis #DouglassForward, black lives matter, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Frederick Douglass, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, racism

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

The Race of Disaster: Black Communities and the Crisis in Puerto Rico

April 17, 2019August 12, 2022 Hilda Lloréns African Diaspora, capitalism, Puerto Rico, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In this post, looking at the lives of Afro-Puerto Rican coastal foragers, I problematize the “disaster capitalism” orthodoxy, to probe

The History of White Investment in Black Suffering

April 16, 2019August 12, 2022 Stacie Mccormick race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

Possessing the Black body is as popular now as it has ever been. The recent college yearbook controversies depicting students in