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Confinement and Disease from Slavery to the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 Gabriella Onikoro-Arkell carceral state, Chicago, COVID-19, geography, slavery

As many college students as well as others have moved back home during the current pandemic people’s houses are feeling

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Flying Lotus and Registers of Black Life and Death

May 11, 2020May 10, 2020 Tiffany Barber and Isabel Jean-Louis #NewBlackSurrealisms, Black film, film, hip hop, Los Angeles, music

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. The music video

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Black Lives & Native Lands: Rewriting the History of New England

May 5, 2020May 3, 2020 David Guzman African Diaspora, slavery

The study of slavery in New England has experienced something of a revival in the last decade. Given that New

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Undaunted Resistance: Joseph Lowery and the Spirit of SCLC

April 30, 2020April 26, 2020 R. Drew Smith Activism, Black church, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, religion

Against all odds, a movement for racial justice took hold in mid-20th-century America, emerging from within the racially-heated South, and

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“We’ll Hold The Police Accountable!”: The Useful Meaninglessnesses of Liberal-speak

April 27, 2020April 26, 2020 Yannick Marshall police brutality, police violence, policing, race, Racial Violence, racism

It has been two years since Stephon Clark was killed in his grandmother’s backyard. Two years since Rev. Al Sharpton

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