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Imprisoning Palestine: Zionist colonialism through an abolitionist lens
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Imprisoning Palestine: Zionist colonialism through an abolitionist lens

by Rawan Masri and Fathi Nemer June 19, 2023November 14, 2023

Exposing the brutal mechanisms of dehumanization and incarceration that Israel employs to oppress and erase the Palestinian people, two authors unravel the history of colonial violence and ethnic cleansing that turned Gaza into a vast open-air prison.

Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Captive Maternal is a function, not an identity marker

by Joy James April 28, 2023November 21, 2023
Black educators' undervalued labor and the need for community support and Revolutionary Love against schooling-as-colonial-indoctrination.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Radical Care Work in the Project of Schooling

by Anna Almore April 7, 2023November 21, 2023
From Caretaker to Rebel: The dialectical relationship between Black motherhood and captivity and the role of love as a tool of political will.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Love and War: Dialectics and the Stages of the Captive Maternal

by Ziyana Lategan April 5, 2023November 21, 2023
Da'Shaun Harrison on death and revolution in the struggle for freedom. Dying is a part of struggle. Revolutionary Love is the catalyst.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Stakes of Revolution and the Death of Desire

by Da'Shaun Harrison March 31, 2023November 21, 2023
The Captive Maternal's Revolutionary Love. The transformative power of Black love in the face of oppression.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

At the impasse of Revolution and Revolutionary Love

by RAW Wilcox March 30, 2023November 21, 2023
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Contradictions and Convictions: Megan Thee Stallion and why abolition can't wait

by Da'Shaun Harrison February 14, 2023December 1, 2023
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I grew up against a backdrop of white evangelical power. Florida's new CRT ban means even more Black students will, too.

by Sierra Lyons August 17, 2022November 13, 2023
Incoming students at Morehouse, a Historically Black college in Atlanta, Georgia, walk past a mural depicting Black history on their way to New Student Orientation 2021. Credit: Photo via Morehouse College on Facebook.
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'Who keeps us safe?' An HBCU roundtable on violence and accountability

by Ko Bragg, Adam Harris, Da'Shaun Harrison, Noella Williams and Alexis Wray February 25, 2022November 13, 2023
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Ending white supremacist violence will take all of us

by Cierra Hinton March 19, 2021March 19, 2021
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Consuming Blackness in 'progressive' West Virginia

by Crystal Good March 5, 2021
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'Pure America': Eugenics past and present

by Adam Willems March 2, 2021March 3, 2021
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When God Calls My Name

by Ashley M. Jones January 11, 2021October 4, 2021
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Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling

by Jason Christian December 29, 2020November 13, 2023
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What you need to know about the new prosecutor on the Ahmaud Arbery case

by Rory Fleming June 1, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

During Civil Rights Era, Native American Communities in the South Armed Themselves Against the Klan

by Malinda Maynor Lowery January 20, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

None of Our Memories: Part 2

by Anna Badkhen August 12, 2019September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

None of Our Memories

by Anna Badkhen July 29, 2019September 27, 2023
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"If we win here, we can win anywhere"

by Anna Simonton April 8, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Toppling giants: painting the removal of confederate monuments

by Ben Hamburger January 14, 2019September 16, 2020
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Last year, white nationalists staged a fatal race rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The location was no coincidence.

by Frederick Coye Heard August 13, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Blind Spots: Selective Memory in Brazilian and U.S. Histories

by Andrew Jenner June 25, 2018September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

THE POET INTERVIEWS THE GHOST OF VESTER FLANAGAN

by Xandria Phillips May 16, 2018October 31, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Wet Dogs

by Danielle P. Williams May 9, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

In Montgomery, a harrowing, beautiful reckoning with racial terror

by Sammy Feldblum May 8, 2018October 1, 2020
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Love notes and protests

by Isaac S. Villegas December 5, 2017October 1, 2020
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White skin

by Isaac S. Villegas September 26, 2017October 1, 2020
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Durham activists rally to support those charged with felonies for pulling down a confederate statue

by Lauren Barber August 23, 2017September 16, 2020
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Want to beat racism? Stop labeling people as racists, and start asking better questions.

by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva February 7, 2017September 16, 2020
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Race and the great American adventure

by Amien Essif May 13, 2016September 27, 2023

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