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Literary scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.
Let’s draw on the defiant wisdom of Frederick Douglass as Trump carries out a blitzkrieg against democracy in the US.
To navigate these terrible times, we need Audre’s Lorde’s audacity: Protect the public sphere. Refuse to be silenced.
The right wing has tried to distort critical race theory. This Black History Month, let’s reflect on what it really is.
After the election, I received several texts and email messages expressing a deep sense of sorrow, angst, dread and heartbreak. Personally, I felt...
We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition is a call to rethink and re-practice the deeper everyday meaning, existential vitality and...
In The Black Image in the White Mind, historian George M. Frederickson writes, “In the years immediately before and after 1800, white Americans...
“I see promise in the connections between the 2020 protests against anti-Blackness and the 2023-2024 protests against Palestinian genocide,”...
In my book, Black Bodies, White Gazes, I interrogate the white gaze, which I describe as a structural and habitual way of racially distorting the...