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Using MLK to Quell Outrage Distorts His Legacy

June 8, 2020June 7, 2020 Jeanne Theoharis civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr., policing, Resistance

Over the past week, numerous public officials—faced with disruptive protests around police brutality and racial inequality in the age of

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Marcus, Martin, and Minneapolis: A Statement from the University of the West Indies

June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 Sir Hilary Beckles

Martin Luther King Jr, when he felt he could not breathe came to Jamaica. When the threats to his life

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Statement on US Protests from Trinidad and Tobago’s ‘Movement for Social Justice’

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 David Abdulah

“It is not easy to describe a crisis so profound that it has caused the most powerful nation in the

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Status of the Bail Funds

June 4, 2020June 3, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black lives matter, Resistance

Since last weekend, we’ve seen a nation-wide uprising in response to the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd,

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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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