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…
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…
By Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot On April 30, 2024, the 206th day of the genocide in Palestine, we stood chanting with hundreds outside Columbia University as theNYPD violently…
The Radical History Review is seeking submissions for a forthcoming issue titled "Mobility Regimes." Scholars of migration have made tremendous strides in interrogating the structural…
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…
By A. Naomi Paik Golnar Nikpour’s striking new book, The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2024), traces the emergence, expansion, and…
Figure 1: St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C., one of only two mental asylums ever operated by the U.S. federal government (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) By Jeremy Peschard In recent years, politicians in the United States have paid significant attention to two major political issues: firstly, the increased number of…
Article image courtesy of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, https://justseeds.org/graphic/stop-cop-city/ By Dan Berger * Published in partnership with The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project. On August 29th, the same Georgia grand jury that indicted Donald…
Article image courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov By S. Ani Mukherji I. Unsettling Beauty Where Little Fiery Gizzard Creek enters the Grundy Lakes (Photograph by S. Ani Mukherji) “…a historical materialist views…
Anonymous, It's Going Down By Benjamin Stumpf Popular resistance to Atlanta’s “Cop City” is growing. The proposed 85-acre police militarization compound, whose construction would destroy the city’s valued Weelaunee/South…