Celeste Henery - AAIHS

Therese Patricia Okoumou: Black Women’s Bodies and Public Protest

Tomorrow, March 19, Therese Patricia Okoumou will be sentenced for her protest climb of the Statue of Liberty this past

Eric Garner’s gasp “I can’t breathe” in the chokehold of a New York City Police Department officer transformed into a

In Pedagogies of Crossing, writer M. Jacqui Alexander asks us to observe the sustenance that lies sometimes in plain sight.

James “Jim” Clarke was a Guyanese-born celebrated swimmer and diasporic pioneer. I first learned of him through a photo at the International

For some years, I’ve written social histories of Black men on death row. The objective is to provide a social