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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Online Roundtable: Saidiya Hartman’s ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments’
May 18-22, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with The Journal of African
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Disability: What Have Black People Got to Do with It?
*This piece is part of the Blackness, Disability, & Gender Identity Series organized by Vilissa Thompson. “What comes first for
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Black Deaths and Black Mourning in the Time of Coronavirus
That coronavirus (COVID-19) is “the great equalizer” has quickly become an old and tired adage, rightly critiqued by scholars and
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