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Race, Necropower, and Natural Disasters

September 23, 2017September 27, 2017 Dan Royles carceral state, environment, race

In the last month, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma devastated Texas and Florida, killing scores of people and leaving many more

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The Black Intellectual Tradition and Hip Hop

September 20, 2017September 22, 2017 Matthew Teutsch black intellectual history, music, slavery

Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between

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Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects

September 9, 2017September 12, 2017 Candace Borders Black women, housing, Missouri, St. Louis

An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,

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The Criminalized Majority

July 21, 2017July 24, 2017 Guest Poster Activism, black politics, black radical tradition, mass incarceration, racism

by Dan Berger and David Stein “Everyone should go to jail, say, once every ten years,” opined novelist and poet

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The 1967 Rebellion and Visions of an Independent Black Detroit

July 17, 2017July 27, 2017 Austin McCoy black nationalism, Detroit

In all likelihood, the progressive slogan—“Another city is possible”—grew from the ashes of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. While many will

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