Sitting Shiva: Mourning and Anger in Trump’s America
I’ve spent most of my life now studying my country’s history, and in particular the ways it has so consistently,
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Is the Myth of Racial Harmony Killing Our Country?
My eyes draw open, fixing on the silhouette of the spinning blades of the ceiling fan above my bed. After
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#MuseumsRespondtoFerguson: An Interview with Aleia Brown and Adrianne Russell
This month I interviewed the founders of a new digital humanities project, #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson. Aleia Brown (left) is the co-founder of #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson
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“All of Us Had a Taste”: Outlaw Women and Stephanie St. Clair, Madame Queen of Policy
Today is the third day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black
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Brother to Brother: An Open Letter to Nate Parker
Dear Brother Nate: I write to you as my brother because I cannot think of anything else to call you
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