"The conservative hysteria over critical race theory is ultimately a refusal to acknowledge that the country’s classrooms have always taught a white-centric view of U.S. history."

"In The Underground Railroad, Jenkins focuses how people survived slavery rather than on its brutality."

I'm a PhD, so we're using history, anthropology, literature, folklore, Ecology etc. It's so fun. I don't know of anyone who extended that sort of commentary through the Civil War like Kastor, but I certainly wish I did. Highly recommend On _...Read More_

>"When Yewande Biala of 'Love Island' called out her cast mate for name discrimination, it shed light on the plight of people with non-normalized, non-Anglophone-sounding names in the West."

>"Black Studies Professor Kehinde Andrews explains how the legacies of colonialism have caused the global inequality of today, and details the West's place at ..."

I've seen some mind blowing stats recently about mass incarceration in the US, like of all the women in the world who are jailed a third of them are in the US Black men are incarcerated at 6 times that of Black South Africans at the height _...Read More_

In the US and the UK there are calls from the right for ‘patriotic education’. This is just code _...Read More_

>"A turn toward nationalism following the MAGA storm on D.C. erases the Black radical tradition of rebellion—and endangers its future."

“The key mistake of the mode of production model was to define ‘production’ simply as the production of material objects; any adequate theory of ‘production’ would have to give at least equal place to the production of people and social _...Read More_