Black Women, Violence, and the Territory of Global Antiblackness
This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. The violence is irrepressible. The names of those taken
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Philadelphia’s Fight Against Gun Violence, Poverty, and Crime
In 1969, the New York Times named Philadelphia the “gang capital” of America when the city had the highest rates
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Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence
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AAIHS Denounces White Supremacist Violence in Florida
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) condemns the recent white supremacist massacre perpetrated against Black Americans in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Tulsa and the Open Question of Justice, 1921–2021
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, a massacre orchestrated by a white mob against
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