Using MLK to Quell Outrage Distorts His Legacy
Over the past week, numerous public officials—faced with disruptive protests around police brutality and racial inequality in the age of
Read more
Resistance
Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today
Read more
Blood in the Water: An Author’s Response
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today
Read more
Status of the Bail Funds
Since last weekend, we’ve seen a nation-wide uprising in response to the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd,
Read more
Attica: The Present and the Recent Past
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today
Read more