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Attica: The Present and the Recent Past

June 4, 2020June 2, 2020 LaShawn Harris carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

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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An Open Letter to Netflix and the Producers and Directors of “Who Killed Malcolm X?”

February 24, 2020February 25, 2020 AAIHS Editors

We are writing to express our profound disappointment at the complete disregard of women activists and women scholars in the

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Black Gods Among Us: In and Beyond HBO’s Watchmen

February 11, 2020February 9, 2020 Ahmad Greene-Hayes #Watchmen, Black Queers, race, Racial Violence, racism, religion, Resistance, Visual Culture, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen.  In the early

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Mothers 4 Housing and the Legacy of Black Anti-Growth Politics

January 15, 2020February 23, 2020 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Black radicalism, police brutality, Resistance

Yesterday at 6 a.m., deputies of the Oakland Police Department violently evicted an organized group of Black mothers, Moms 4

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Paul Boutelle’s 1968 Vice-Presidential Campaign

November 18, 2019November 16, 2019 E. James West Activism, anti-capitalism, black intellectual history, black politics, capitalism, Communism, Politics

This piece is the fourth installment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Click these links

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