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The 1967 Detroit Uprising and the Failure of the Criminal Justice System

June 6, 2018June 16, 2018 Say Burgin criminal justice system, Detroit, police brutality, police violence

Standing before judge Robert Columbo, a Detroiter made a standard defendant’s request to be released on his own recognizance. He

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The Complexities of Racial and Religious Identities

September 29, 2017October 1, 2017 Tisa Wenger #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black nationalism, Nation of Islam

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s exhaustively researched and analytically brilliant new book,

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Sometime Between: Living Archives and the Power of Black Agency

September 25, 2017September 29, 2017 Rhon Manigault-Bryant #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, religion

This post is the introduction to our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming In the opening pages of New World A-Coming: Black

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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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