Perhaps some things should never be spoken — for, when they are, they leave us aghast, in a state of horror. Think…
The outrages are raining down one after another: Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine is responsible for the war with Russia, which thus blames Ukraine…
There is a powerful traditional saying within Black cultural spaces, one that speaks of “making a way out of no way.” This…
Since Donald Trump came to power for the second time in the United States, the attacks on all of our intersecting communities…
In The Black Image in the White Mind, historian George M. Frederickson writes, “In the years immediately before and after 1800, white Americans…
In February 1926, the Black historian and scholar Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week, which later became known as Black History…
The body is precarious. That is, as embodied people, we are all precarious, interdependent, fragile, vulnerable. As much as neoliberalism would like us to…
Watching the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols for me drove home a deeper understanding that policing as an institution can never be…
Disability, carceral violence and problematic forms of racialization constitute a profound and hegemonic labyrinth, Talila A. Lewis argues. So what are the intersections between…
Spectacular and mundane acts of everyday racism are normalized or simply not seen.
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