Attica: Writing on Blood, Violence, and Trauma in History
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon
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Theorizing Race and Disability
This week we are revisiting Therí A. Pickens’s new book, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke University Press, 2019). Today we are featuring an
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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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Black Amazonia: Environmental Knowledge In the Struggle for Black Liberation In Brazil
The question of Black peoples’ relationship to the natural environment is a complex one. Overwhelmingly, scholarly discourse on this relationship
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“An Oasis in Turbulent Times”: Black Towns, Black Futures
Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of
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