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Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance

In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe described her concept of “wake work” as “a

“Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.” -Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals The COVID-19 numbers are

That coronavirus (COVID-19) is “the great equalizer” has quickly become an old and tired adage, rightly critiqued by scholars and

In November 1864, a formerly enslaved man named Peter Bumper and his fiance Bucinda Nelson had their marriage registered with

“You have been complaining at lot about being cold these days.” My dear friend, Deirdre Cooper Owens (Dee-Dee) said to