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Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. By then, she had left Alabama

Charlotta Bass for Vice-President: America’s Two-Parties and the Black Vote

January 21, 2020August 19, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, capitalism, Communism, Politics, white supremacy

Social media has brought the culture wars to a larger audience and demonstrates how conservatives have constructed historical narratives to

Dying Laughing: Black Fugitivity and Black Queer Precarity

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 Keelyn Bradley black politics, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black women, LGBT, race

If, as Ralph Ellison writes, Black laughter is, as an expression of Black humanity, a threat to white social order

Mothers 4 Housing and the Legacy of Black Anti-Growth Politics

January 15, 2020February 23, 2020 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Black radicalism, police brutality, Resistance

Yesterday at 6 a.m., deputies of the Oakland Police Department violently evicted an organized group of Black mothers, Moms 4

(Anti-)Imperialism, Knowledge Production, and Political Economy

November 27, 2019November 24, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly #AAIHSRoundtable, #WorldmakingafterEmpire, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, black internationalism, black politics, capitalism, colonialism, decolonization, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination In Worldmaking after Empire: