Planting the Seeds of Black Study

Thinking expansively about Black History Month as a starting point for Black Study, looking to justice movements around Black farming and food

Thinking with Audre Lorde and Walter Rodney

Audre Lorde and Walter Rodney have so many lessons for us today. What is imperialism? What does it mean to be “included” in empire?

Revolution in our time

A review of Kekla Magoon’s Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

Disrupting Juneteenth

Juneteenth has always been about the disruption required to create Black freedom

The historic roots of Black union organizing at Amazon

The unapologetic radicalism of Black laborers lives on in the bold action of the Bessemer Amazon workers

Defying Dixie at the Cotton Lofts

Glenda Gilmore’s Defying Dixie describes the leftist activism that laid the foundation for the subsequent Civil Rights and Movement for Black Lives. Her stories of hit home for many of us — her recounting of the Atlanta Six case at Atlanta’s Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill in particular for me and Atlanta folx. My great […]