Flying Lotus and Registers of Black Life and Death
*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. The music video
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Los Angeles
We are our own Multitude: Los Angeles’ Black Panamanian Community
*This essay is republished in partnership with Boom California as part of an ongoing series on Black California. On a Saturday
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Stop Killer Cops: Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated
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The Rise of Incarceration in Los Angeles: An Interview with Kelly Lytle Hernandez
In today’s post, Erica Sterling, a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University, interviews Kelly Lytle Hernandez about
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Making Black Los Angeles: A New Book on Class, Gender, and Community
This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African
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