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Confronting the Complexities of Black Social Movements

July 16, 2025July 2, 2025 Shannon King #FromRightstoLives, black lives matter, pedagogy, sexual violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney Jr.’s From Rights to Lives.

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The Historical Intersection of Race and Citizenship in Panama

May 30, 2023May 27, 2023 Marcus Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #PanamaInBlack, African Diaspora, black internationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Kaysha Corinealdi’s Panama in Black. The Afro-Antillian Museum of Panama is located

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Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Excavating the History of Afro-Brazilian Women

April 5, 2021April 18, 2021 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, archives, Brazil, carceral state, Historical Memory, slavery

Only a few pages remain of what is cited as the first known text written by an Afro-Brazilian woman. Rosa

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Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor

September 18, 2020September 17, 2020 Andrew Grim electoral politics, police brutality, policing, Politics

Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to

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