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Fantastic and Fatal Coalitions: Revisiting ‘Blood Syndicate’

October 8, 2019October 6, 2019 Rebecca Wanzo #comicsandrace, #MilestoneMedia, black intellectual history, comic books, comics, race, urban history, violence

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In 1983, Bernice Johnson Reagon

Making a World: Comics, Meaning, and the Dakotaverse

October 7, 2019October 6, 2019 Julian Chambliss #MilestoneMedia, comic books, comics, geography, race, urban history

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In Milestone Forever, a documentary

Psychiatric clinic, c. 1930. Photo: PBS.

Luke Cage and the History of Medical Exploitation

May 30, 2019May 29, 2019 Matthew Teutsch comic books, comics, Luke Cage, medical experimentation, racism

The first story arc in David Walker’s Luke Cage run, “Sins of the Father,” sees Cage headed to New Orleans to attend

The Nubian Body, African Aesthetics, and Cultural Imagination

February 15, 2018February 16, 2018 Janell Hobson africa, Afrofuturism, Black women, comic books, film, hip hop

The excitement over the much-anticipated African-themed superhero film, Black Panther, has reached fever pitch among African Americans and Black communities

Moving Slave Narratives from Film to Comics

December 22, 2017December 29, 2017 Nathan Moore comic books, film, Racial Violence, slavery, violence

Comics might not be the first place you’d think to go to for profound meditations on complex topics like war,