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Cosmological Queerness Across the Yoruba Diaspora

February 5, 2017April 2, 2018 James Padilioni Jr Afro-Brazilians, Black Queers, Brazil, religion, slave trade, slavery

The constellating topics of homosexuality and masculinity are perennial to Black American discourses. In contemporary debates, the chorus shouting loudest

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Civil Rights and Healthcare: Remembering Simkins v. Cone (1963)

February 4, 2017February 7, 2017 Ezelle Sanford III civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, law

Upon her release from L. Richardson Memorial Hospital’s maternity ward in Greensboro, North Carolina, my grandmother, Ann Wilson Scales, walked

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Blood in the Water: An Author’s Response

January 27, 2017January 29, 2017 Heather Ann Thompson #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the final day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Attica: The Present and the Recent Past

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 LaShawn Harris #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Blood in the Water: A New Book on the Attica Prison Uprising

January 22, 2017January 24, 2017 Michael Ezra #BloodintheWater

Today is the beginning of our online roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s new book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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