Black Lives Matter: Not a Moment, But a Movement
Though it was first created as a hashtag in 2013 as a response to Trayvon Martin’s death at the hands
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“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis
*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.
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Black Radical Silence on Palestine
In the months leading up to the annual Palestinian Land Day commemoration on March 30, 2018, Palestinian activists living in
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Black Lives, Policing, and Historical Memory
On April 8, 2018, Danville police responded to a domestic disturbance between a man and a woman. The woman accused
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A Primary Moral Position: Black Feminism and Self-Possession
*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making of Black Lives Matter:
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