Race

Robin D. G. Kelley and Bongani Madondo honor the writer’s life, work, and legacy.

The militarization of gun culture among both civilians and police reflects an increasingly energetic defense of white rule in the United States. This has been facilitated in part by an NRA-led reinterpretation of what the Second Amendment meant by “militia”.

The field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion, despite its universalist claims.

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Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire.

A recording of a virtual roundtable to honor the life and work of Charles W. Mills.

On language and belonging.

An interview with Derecka Purnell about her new book Becoming Abolitionists, how we should think about the systems that produce violence, and, ultimately, the resources that will allow people to live safely.

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

Abolition is not only about eliminating the police, but imagining new systems that work to ensure a fair, equal society where there is no place for racism, ableism, or state violence.