By Marisol LeBrón In The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Jorell Meléndez-Badillo details…
The execution of Peter Smith in Marshall, N.C., 1905.
Smith was allowed to make a public statement before being hanged out of sight of the crowd. By Rebekah Aycock In Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina, Seth Kotch tells the history of the death penalty in…
Veterans of the anti-colonialist war against Spain (1863-1865) at a dinner organized by feminist educator Ercilia Pepín (third in the left row) in 1927. Source: revista Blanco y Negro. By Amaury Rodríguez Since the worldwide political upheavals of the 1960s, Caribbean and Latin American social scientists have expanded the production of people’s history or…
March to Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson’s home, July 2, 2020.
Photo by: Rhea Rahman. By Teona Pagan, Daniel Vazquez, Elizabeth Bazile, Hailey Lam, and Diana Kennedy Defunding the police sounds radical until you realize that we’ve been defunding education…
A Palestinian youth placed a flag on the Israeli Separation Wall during a protest marking nine years for the struggle against the wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in, February 28, 2014. (Photo by Oren Ziv/GroundTruth) by Chandni Desai Plans for de jure annexation of Palestinian lands have emerged at a time when the world is battling against one of the…
Roosevelt Roads signage. Photo: Diana Ramos Gutiérrez By Diana Ramos Gutiérrez When arriving at the entrance of the former Roosevelt Roads naval station in the eastern Puerto Rican town of Ceiba, the…
Black Lives Matter Protest in DC, 6/1/2020. (Instagram: @koshuphotography) By Charlotte Rosen The police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade, and the subsequent uprisings against racist police brutality in Minneapolis and…
Pablo Delano, A Group of newly made Americans at Ponce, Porto Rico, (detail from the conceptual art installation The Museum of the Old Colony, 2016-ongoing). Source: Stereocard published by M. H. Zahner, Niagara Falls, New York, 1898. Photographer not identified. By R. Sánchez-Rivera Recently, a published, peer-reviewed article caused a great deal of controversy when it circulated among many academic Facebook pages such as Latinx…
Photo Credit: Jackie Rodriguez Vega By Mike Amezcua The police killing of George Floyd has sparked urban rebellions and demonstrations across hundreds of American cities. The accompanying looting and destruction…
Labadee, Production Photography, HD video, sound, 7 min 10 sec, 2017, Joiri Minaya Regarding cruise ships, the terrorism of tourism in the Caribbean, and the Western media’s summer 2019 discourse about “poisonings” at resorts in the Dominican Republic…