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Attica Means Fight Back: History and Storytelling as Resistance

January 24, 2017January 26, 2017 Danielle McGuire #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration

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

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Attica: Writing on Blood, Violence, and Trauma in History

January 22, 2017January 25, 2017 Kali Nicole Gross #BloodintheWater, carceral state, criminal justice system, police violence

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

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Independence Day Manifesto

January 20, 2017January 22, 2017 Russell Rickford black protest, capitalism, democracy, Donald Trump

How shall integrity face oppression? — W. E. B. Du Bois Welcome to Trump’s America. In the dark times ahead,

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Why We Need James and Grace Lee Boggs Now

January 19, 2017January 22, 2017 Garrett Felber Activism, black intellectual history, black protest

In 2011, I sat in the living room of Grace Lee Boggs at 3061 Field Street, a space Bill Strickland affectionately

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Gentrifying Luke Cage: The Racial Failure of Nostalgia

January 15, 2017January 18, 2017 Joshua Plencner #comicsandrace, comic books, Luke Cage

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

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