Margaret Garner and the Complexities of Slavery and Gender
“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s
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Death
The Poetic Theology of Essex Hemphill
Facing the innumerable deaths of friends and loved ones, as well as the likelihood of his own untimely passing, Washington,
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Black Motherhood and the Limits of Empathy
Although it has been months since the controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting, “Open Casket,” which depicted Emmett Till’s mutilated face
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Race, Homosexuality, and the AIDS Epidemic
In “America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic,” her recent cover story for New York Times Magazine, Linda Villarosa documents the struggles of
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Black Women, Police Violence, and Mental Illness
When I heard about Charleena Lyles—I remembered Eleanor Bumpurs, Deborah Danner, and Sophia King. All four were black women with
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