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A People’s Anthology: Episode Six

Assata Shakur — “Women in Prison: How It Is With Us”

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology: Episode Five

The Combahee River Collective Statement

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology: Episode Four

Fred Hampton — “Power Anywhere There’s People”

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology: Episode Three

Jesse Gray — “The Black Revolution: A Struggle for Political Power”

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology: Episode Two

Jack O’Dell — “The July Rebellions and the Military State”

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology: Episode One

Claudia Jones — “An End of the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!”

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Podcast, Race

A People’s Anthology

Our members-only podcast is now available to all! A reading series of radical essays and speeches, season one highlights six short texts related to Black liberation struggles in the U.S., from Claudia Jones to the Combahee River Collective.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Race

Immigration Enforcement and the Afterlife of the Slave Ship

Coast Guard techniques for blocking Haitian asylum seekers have their roots in the slave trade. Understanding these connections can help us disentangle immigration policy from white nationalism.

Ryan Fontanilla

Race

“White Fragility” Gets Jackie Robinson’s Story Wrong

Robin DiAngelo’s best-selling book sells a misguided view of baseball integration to her readers and corporate clients. 

Peter Dreier

Arts in Society

Ancestral Wealth

The Sacred Black Masculine in My Life

Tyehimba Jess

Race

DNA and Our Twenty-First-Century Ancestors

Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestors, instead comparing customers to other present-day people based on assumptions about race and ethnicity. So what are they actually selling?

Duana Fullwiley

Race

Poisoning Tallevast

First, segregation blocked this Florida community from equal education and other public goods. Then the military–industrial complex sickened residents and destroyed their property.

James Manigault-Bryant, Ruby Bagwyn, José Constantine

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