by Rachel Ida Buff American HistoryMichael S. Harper Those four black girls blown upin that Alabama churchremind me of five hundredmiddle passage blacks,in a net,…
By Emmaia Gelman The Colleyville synagogue incident started out feeling like another in the litany of anguishing attacks on Jewish spaces. But almost immediately, it…
By Benjamin Dangl Chicha and ritual had a central role in what was one of the most consequential meetings in Andean history: the first encounter between…
Rush Limbaugh fan merchandise By A.J. Bauer Rush Limbaugh’s death on Wednesday made me miss my mom. And I don’t mean “miss” in the way some have referred to…
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…
by Natasha Varner I am haunted by a small trove of turquoise jewels. They were given to me by my late grandmother Victoria, whom I…
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…
Tamara K. Nopper On August 23, 1966, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara delivered a speech at the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign…
A protest in defense of international students, July 14, 2020. Source: @mtnsbeyondmtns on twitter By Abigail Boggs On July 10, 2020 the National Geographic website published “Education interrupted. Years lost. Students face ‘cruelty of new visa policy,” an article…
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…