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Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Russell Rickford carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Attica: The Present and the Recent Past

June 4, 2020June 2, 2020 LaShawn Harris carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Steeped in the Blood: On The May 15th, 1970 Jackson State Killings

May 15, 2020May 14, 2020 Brandon James Render Mississippi, police violence, Racial Violence, student activism

On the night of May 14, 1970, Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green made their way to Alexander Hall, a

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Racism After Redlining

April 21, 2020April 23, 2020 N.D.B Connolly civil rights, housing, Racial Capitalism

Practically any modern American historian can narrate a brief history of redlining in the United States. As the story goes,

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Violence, Empathy, and Solidarity, in the New History of Policing

April 6, 2020April 5, 2020 Dan Berger #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, carceral state, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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