Search Results for: prison labor

Black Girls, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Self-Defense

September 13, 2016September 11, 2016 Lindsey E. Jones carceral state, mass incarceration

The case of Bresha Meadows, an African American teenage girl in Ohio, is a sad commentary on the failure of

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Black Love Post-Death, Part II

September 12, 2016September 11, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson black lives matter, Black Studies

Last year, right around this time, I wrote this for Focus: The Princeton Department of African and African American Studies Medium

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Black Women Hustling off The Grid: An Author’s Response

September 10, 2016September 4, 2016 LaShawn Harris Black women, Harlem, New York

Today is the final day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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Shifting Ground: Writing Working-Class Black Women’s History from Below

September 8, 2016September 3, 2016 Talitha LeFlouria Black women, Harlem, New York

Today is the fourth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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Welfare Reform Syllabus

August 24, 2016August 22, 2016 Guest Poster poverty

This syllabus was originally published on the website of the Anna Julia Cooper Center and is reprinted here with permission.

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