Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence
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Unsilencing the Haitian Revolution in US Hip Hop
This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.” Haiti got a special place in our history,
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Chuck D Brought Me Here: Rap, Race, and Radical Politics
This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.” Before I completed elementary school, Public Enemy had
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Golden-Era Rap Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.” Hip hop’s “golden era,” the period from 1987
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The Afterlives of Migration in Panama and its Diaspora
This post is part of our online roundtable on Kaysha Corinealdi’s Panama in Black. In the last decades of the nineteenth
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