Marcus, Martin, and Minneapolis: A Statement from the University of the West Indies
Martin Luther King Jr, when he felt he could not breathe came to Jamaica. When the threats to his life
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Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive
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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Intimate Historical Practice
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Saidiya Hartman has stacked
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Steeped in the Blood: On The May 15th, 1970 Jackson State Killings
On the night of May 14, 1970, Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green made their way to Alexander Hall, a
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Confinement and Disease from Slavery to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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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