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Political Rage, Feminist Anger

October 29, 2025 0

About the Dis/Order Project Lesson Series This lesson plan is part of a series of assignments and activities developed for the Dis/Order Project, which examines…

The Fight for Black Education and Black History: An Interview with Brian Jones, Jesse Hagopian,…

October 29, 2025 0

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a free public education series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In connection with the online…

Imperial Mobilities, Geographical Imaginaries: A Conversation Between Javier Arbona-Homar and Emily Mitchell-Eaton

October 28, 2025 0

In the Abusable Past’s latest installment of “What We’re Reading,” we invited Javier Arbona-Homar and Emily Mitchell-Eaton to discuss their recently released books. Taken together, Arbona-Homar’s Explosivity: Following What Remains(University of…

Malcolm X at 100

October 3, 2025 0

By Lucien Baskin Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is a free public education series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In connection with…

Carceral Quarantine

July 7, 2025 0

About the Executive Dis/Order Project Lesson Series This lesson plan is part of a series of assignments and activities developed for the Executive Dis/Order Project,…

Record of Transfer

June 24, 2025 0

Executive Dis/Order Project About the Executive Dis/Order Project Lesson Series This lesson plan is part of a series of assignments and activities developed for the…

State Violence and the Black Freedom Struggle

June 10, 2025 0

By Lucien Baskin Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a free public education series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.…

Luigi Mangione, Giuseppe Zangara, and the Forgotten History of Italian American Radicalism

March 26, 2025 0

By Sonia C. Gomez Before Luigi Mangione, there was Giuseppe Zangara. In 1933, Zangara, an Italian immigrant, attempted to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Driven…