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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
Women preparing a kolam in Thulasendrapuram, Tamil Nadu (the home village of Kamala Harris' maternal grandfather) in 2020. Aijaz Raha via the AP By Jessica Namakkal It has been a big year for South Asian Americans in politics. Before the summer of 2024, there were two conservatives, Nikki…
Rep. Marcantonio, in front of his office at 1484 First Ave. NY" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1948. By Sandhya Shukla Seventy years ago today, Vito Marcantonio, the most left-wing congressman in US history, suffered a fatal heart attack. He had by then…
Figure 1: Covers of Elliott Young and Kristina Shull's books: Forever Prisoners and Detention Empire, respectively. By Tina Shull and Elliott Young Elliott Young’s book Forever Prisoners tells the stories of migrants caught in the jaws of the US immigration bureaucracy…
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…