Black Radicalism and Voices of Resistance
First published at the end of 1971, Angela Davis’ If They Come in the Morning is the kind of urgent tract
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Author: Dan Berger
“Thinking Black” Against the Carceral State: Angela Davis and Prisoner Defense Campaigns
The stirring directive sounded like the denouement of a legal thriller: “I am going to ask you, if you will,
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Proposing Your Audience: Writing the Book Proposal
My regular contributions to Black Perspectives concern social movements and the carceral state. This month, at the request of the
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Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years
“Power concedes nothing without demand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one of his most cited speeches. “It never did and it
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Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive
This is the second day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison
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