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    • People’s University for Gaza
      • Forum 7.0 // People’s University for Gaza, Introduction
      • Forum 7.1 // Campus Circulation & Noncirculation: Fall 2024
      • Forum 7.2 // The New Age of McCarthyism: The Challenges of Teaching About Palestine in a Post-October 7th World 
      • Forum 7.3 // Teaching The Question of Palestine: Interdisciplinary Considerations 
      • Forum 7.4 // UCSC People’s U Reflections on Kinship, Community, and Care
      • Forum 7.5 // Making Meaning of What We’ve Lost:  Collective Grief, Community, and Campus Crackdowns in the Wake of the Encampment Movement  
      • Forum 7.6 // What My College’s Palestine Encampment Taught Me About Love 
      • Forum 7.7 // Solidarity until Liberation against the Militarized University
      • Forum 7.8 // From New York Liberation School to Intifada University
      • Forum 7.9 // From Central America to Palestine:The importance of solidarity and global connections The People’s University
      • Forum 7.10 // Sustaining Dialogue
    • On Peer Review
      • Forum 1.1 // On Peer Review, Introduction
      • Forum 1.2 // On Peer Review, by Marissa J. Moorman (Radical History Review)
      • Forum 1.3 // On Peer Review, by Rocío Zambrana (Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy)
      • Forum 1.4 // On Peer Review, by Andrew Dilts (Abolition Journal Collective)
      • Forum 1.5 // The Precarity of Peer Review, by Eli Thorkelson (precarious ethnographer)
    • Mauna Kea
      • Forum 2 // Enduring Hawaiian Sovereignty : Protecting the Sacred at Mauna Kea, Introduction by J. Kehaulani Kauanui
      • Forum 2.1 // For Mauna Kea to Live, TMT Must Leave, by David Uahikeaikalei‘ohu Maile
      • Forum 2.2 // In Ceremony and Struggle: The Lāhui at Puʻuhonua o Puʻuhuluhulu, by Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
      • Forum 2.3 // Stop TMT: Bearing Witness to the Decolonial Change the World Has Long Needed, by Dean Itsuji Saranillio
      • Forum 2.4 // Ke Mau Nei Nō Ke Ea O Ka ʻĀina I Ka Pono, by Noenoe K. Silva
    • The Border is the Crisis
      • Forum 3.1 // Four Things You Need to Know About the Border by Lisa Sun-Hee Park
      • Forum 3.2 // The Racist, Sexist, Classist, and Homophobic Past of the “Public Charge” Clause by Julio Capó, Jr.
      • Forum 3.3 // On Common Ground: Concentration Camps in the ‘Home of the Free’ at the Southwest Border and in History by Hana C. Maruyama
      • Forum 3.4 // ‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans by David Hernández
      • Forum 3.5 // #Microsyllabus: Immigration Enforcement and the U.S.-Mexico Border
    • From Carr to Classroom
      • Forum 4 // From Carr to Classroom : Pursuing Historical Knowledge in the Shadow of the Confederacy
      • Forum 4.1 // Where do we study history?
      • Forum 4.2 // Carr, the Confederacy, and Conversations Ongoing
      • Forum 4.3 // Renaming the Carr Building and its Role in the Discussion of Race-Based Issues
      • Forum 4.4 // Confessions of a White Moderate
      • Forum 4.5 // The Past is for the Living
    • White Terror, “Red” Island: A People’s Archive of the Jeju 4.3 Uprising and Massacre
      • Forum 5.2 // Literature of Memory Struggle
      • Forum 5.3 // Reiterations of Dissent
      • Forum 5.4 // Early Cold War Genocide: The Jeju 4.3 Massacre and U.S. Responsibility
      • Forum 5.5 // Silent Wounds of Jeju 4.3
      • Forum 5.6 // “So Many Stories You Never Heard”: An Inheritance of Loss (an interview with Dohee Lee)
      • Forum 5.7 // Over 5,000 Days of Resistance: An Interview with Anti-base Activist Choi Sung-hee on the Gangjeong and Jeju Struggle for Peace
      • Forum 5.8// Sangsuwon (The Origin of Water), HOBAK Jeju Solidarity zine #1
    • Campus Policing
      • Forum 6.1 // Abolitionist Study and Struggle in and beyond the University
      • Forum 6.2 // Who Polices the Campus? The Relationship between Administrators and Campus Police
      • Forum 6.3 // No Guns, No Cops, No Code: the 1980s Anti-Deputization Movement at the University of Michigan
      • Forum 6.4 // The Local as Problem: A Berkeley Story
      • Forum 6.5 // Abolition, Universities, and the American Right
      • Forum 6.6 // Against Naïve Autonomy: Critiquing the Policing of South African University Campuses
      • Forum 6.7 // Scaling Up and Building Solidarity: A Conversation with Organizers from the Cops Off Campus Coalition
      • Forum 6.8 // Art: Praxis & Power
  • Doing Radical History
  • Addendum
    • Call for Submissions
      • CFP: Radical History Review issue on Mobility Regimes
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Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS)

Black and white photograph of men protesting police brutality. Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS)

Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, State Violence, and Surveillance

February 20, 2026 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…

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS)

The Fight for Black Education and Black History: An Interview with Brian Jones, Jesse Hagopian, Crystal Sanders, Barry Goldenberg, and Lucien Baskin

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…

A black and white photo of Malcolm X speaking into a mic at a podium on stage with William Strickland and Fannie Lou Hammer sitting directly behind him. Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS)

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…

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS)

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.…

Recent Posts

  • Criminalizing the Casbahs: An Interview with Danielle Beaujon
  • Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, State Violence, and Surveillance
  • Political Rage, Feminist Anger
  • The Fight for Black Education and Black History: An Interview with Brian Jones, Jesse Hagopian, Crystal Sanders, Barry Goldenberg, and Lucien Baskin
  • Imperial Mobilities, Geographical Imaginaries: A Conversation Between Javier Arbona-Homar and Emily Mitchell-Eaton
  • Malcolm X at 100
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