Hair Discrimination and Global Politics of Anti-Blackness, Part 1
Recent cases of Black hair/style regulation and punishment in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States reveal
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Racism
Slavery and Disability Discourse
In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that
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Haiti and US Policing
The recent assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Möise and the power vacuum he left have deep roots in United States
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Remembering, Rethinking, and Renaming the Watts Rebellion
Stop referring to what happened in Los Angeles from August 11- 16, 1965 as the Watts Riot. Call the events
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Unmarked and Unburied: the Unsettling of Black Death
The contemporary “discovery” of unmarked graves and unburied bodies of African Americans remains a disturbing reality of the Black experience.
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