slavery

Stolen bodies, Stolen land: Contemplating Blackness and Indigeneity

“E pluribus unum”: Federalism is a reactionary structure built on anti-Blackness

How heterosexual Black men project the psycho-sexual traumas of the plantation onto our queer brethren

Comic: Tired of hearing about slavery? There is plenty more to discuss.

Black dissociation is a requirement of capitalism

Police brutality does not end because of a pandemic, it is made worse by it

The business of prisons and the laws that make sure they exist

Reflecting on Patrick Chamoiseau’s ‘Slave Old Man’ and physical memories of the enslaved

“Laughing barrels” and the defiant spirit of Black laughter

Theon never betrayed the Starks: How ‘Game of Thrones’ minimizes forced captivity & slavery

2020 candidates are finally talking about reparations. It’s time to deepen the debate

Colleges sanitizing remnants of white supremacy on their campuses isn’t progress

Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship sparks fiery responses ahead of midterms

Our hair is a map to freedom: What I learned about resistance from the “1st” free Black town in the Americas

95 bodies—how sanitizing slavery keeps America’s hands clean

Remains of 95 Black “convict lease laborers” who were basically post-Civil War slaves found in Texas

I don’t want as many “chances” to f*ck up as Kanye

Black people were held in slavery in the Deep South as late as the 1960’s

Comic: We know why y’all keep trying to distance yourselves from slavery

Erykah Badu finding “good” in Hitler highlights the limits of Black empathy after slavery

Reparations will never be given — it’s time we protect the everyday people who take them

Reading ‘Black Museum’ and ‘Get Out’ as comparative Afrofuturist zombie slave narratives

Egyptian sex trafficking ring bust nets 75 people

Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”: The slave revolt fantasy Hollywood never intended to make?

New book from Zora Neale Hurston about the last survivor of the Atlantic slave trade to be released in 2018

Comic: When white people think ancestry is easy

Harvard Law School owns past ties to slavery by adding memorial

Sofia Coppola erased Black women from ‘The Beguiled’ because white women always have to be victims

Juneteenth and our post-emancipation fight for liberation

When I, a Black person, was told I didn’t know enough about another culture to have opinions on slavery

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