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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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The Historical Hatred of Haiti

December 18, 2017December 21, 2017 Ameer Hasan Loggins Haiti, Haitian Revolution

In 2016, while campaigning in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Donald Trump told a group of Haitians that, “We have a

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Attica: The Present and the Recent Past

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 LaShawn Harris #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th

October 22, 2016July 12, 2017 Dan Berger carceral state

When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause

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Martin Sostre and the Fight against Solitary Confinement

May 16, 2016January 1, 2017 Garrett Felber

In the summer of 2015, President Barack Obama finally broke the silence on the use of solitary confinement, calling for

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