“What’s Going On?”: Race, Brutality, and Injustice Since Rodney King
On April 2, 1939, legendary R&B and soul singer Marvin Gaye was born. Known for a body of masterpieces, his
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Reading the Language of Violence in the Middle Passage
This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea “The dead are not remembered in
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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 3
This essay is Part Three of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first
Read moreOrlando and the American Pathologies of Masculinity and Militarism
It is virtually forbidden–as an unpatriotic act–that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood. –James Baldwin The dominant
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Why We Must Remember: Reflecting on the Charleston Massacre One Year Later
On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina,
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