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Lewis Gordon and Nathalie Etoke discuss the space for freedom opened up by Black existentialist thought.
Melvin Rogers and Neil Roberts discuss the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.
Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.
Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Lerone A. Martin on the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
To make change, movements need to build endurance—the capacity to keep people showing up despite their differences.
The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.
Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.
It's at the heart of what makes The Black Jacobins a classic.
How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.
The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class. His writings remain essential.
Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work in reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.
Fifty years ago, the American Indian Movement occupied the site of a historic massacre. They won real gains in the face of brutal counterinsurgency tactics.
A conversation with Dan Berger and veteran activists Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons on the origins of Black Power and the work of coalition building.
N'Kosi Oates speaks with J.T. Roane about Philadelphia's spatial politics and resistance to racial containment.
Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.
On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.
Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.
What does it mean for those living in the diaspora to remain attached to the land they left behind?
Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.
Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.
In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy.
Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.
Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.
A posthumous collection tracks Noel Ignatiev’s commitment to class struggle, abolishing whiteness, and finding a vision of freedom in the minds and actions of working people.
The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.
Harm reduction strategies, like those pioneered by queer men of color, have the best chance of stopping this disease.
Freedom means a world where how I parent is simply mundane rather than overburdened with meaning.
Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.
In her new book, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández makes the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.
Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?
The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
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Lawyer, writer, organizer, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom.
Professor of American History at UCLA
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