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Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi: Seeing Anne’s Struggles as Our Own

July 10, 2020July 5, 2020 Adele Norris black protest, blackness, Civil Rights Movement, youth

It’s been over 50 years since Anne Moody published Coming of Age in Mississippi in 1968. The autobiography chronicles Anne’s life

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Black Lives Matter on Campus– Universities Must Rethink Reliance on Campus Policing and Prison Labor

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Robert T. Chase & Yalile Suriel policing, prisons, Resistance, student activism

In the wake of the devastating murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, people have taken to

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Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Robert Chase 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,

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Re-Reading Madness and Blackness in Black Women’s Fiction

May 27, 2020May 23, 2020 Anna L. Hinton

This week we are revisiting Therí A. Pickens’s new book, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke University Press, 2019). Today we

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Ida Taught Me

May 16, 2020May 19, 2020 Koritha Mitchell Activism, Black radicalism, Black women, civil rights

In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She

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