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To Build a Black Future

In this excerpt, an introduction to the new Black politics of joy, pain, and care

September 11, 2023 • by Christopher Paul Harris

One of the critical features of the contemporary moment in Black movement, the time of #BlackLivesMatter, is how capacious the definitions of Blackness and, with it, Black radicalism have become....

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Can a Walking Tour Rescue a Lost History?

As the pandemic hit and anti-Asian violence surged, Anna Huang and Chloe Chan started Mott Street Girls, a walking tour company, to make Chinese American history more accessible to the public

June 12, 2023 • by Mette Kierstein

In the future, Mott Street Girls hope to have visited every Chinatown in the country. But hearing people’s feedback is what keeps them going. They believe that history can be a form of social activism....

Can a Walking Tour Rescue a Lost History?

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The Pro-Nazi Artist Behind the Brooklyn Public Library’s Facade

German-American sculptor Carl Paul Jennewein, who designed the library’s iconic entrance reliefs, participated in Nazi exhibitions and espoused white supremacist beliefs

June 6, 2023 • by Daniel Fernandez

Brooklyn Public Library’s entrance artwork propagates a colonialist, white supremacist vision that is inseparable from Nazism....

The Pro-Nazi Artist Behind the Brooklyn Public Library’s Facade

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Atlanta’s Haunted Forest

Reckoning with a city’s settler colonial and racist legacies

May 3, 2023 • by Juliana Jones-Beaton

Atlanta is built on cycles of violence, and it is the permeating violence of convict labor, slavery, and settler colonialism that has led us here....

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Trump Protests in Lower Manhattan: Pro and Con

A photo essay

April 10, 2023 • by Jo Freeman

Trump was taken out a side entrance before all that press even knew he was out of the building...

Trump Protests in Lower Manhattan: Pro and Con

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NYC Climate Action to Stop Dirty Banks

A photo essay

March 23, 2023 • by Jo Freeman

Jo Freeman captures the protest from the streets...

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Future Anterior Witness

Women’s Voices Narrating Black Death

February 16, 2023 • by Julie Beth Napolin

Facebook's censorship of documented violence points to a boundary in public life: death is not meant to be livestreamed....

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Beyond Pro-Choice/Pro-Life Binaries

An excerpt of Repealed: Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights

February 6, 2023 • by Camilla Fitzsimons and Sinéad Kennedy

Abortion became illegal in Ireland in 1861 as part of the United Kingdom and Great Britain’s Offences Against the Person Act. But while abortion might not have been talked about much in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was happening. ...

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“Bigger Than Roe” was Smaller Than Usual in DC

A photo essay

January 25, 2023 • by Jo Freeman

Pro-choice protestors gathered in different cities all over the country on January 22, 2023. This was exactly 50 years after the Supreme Court declared in Roe v. Wade that state laws that denied a woman the right to choose an abortion were a violation of her Constitutional right to privacy. ...

“Bigger Than Roe” was Smaller Than Usual in DC

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Biden and Pelosi Speak at NAN’s MLK Day Breakfast

A photo essay

January 19, 2023 • by Jo Freeman

President Biden and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi were the featured speakers at the annual MLK day breakfast sponsored by the National Action Network....

Biden and Pelosi Speak at NAN’s MLK Day Breakfast

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January 6 Voting Rally in DC

A photo essay

January 9, 2023 • by Jo Freeman

Last September, right-wing rallies demanded “Justice for J6.” Last week, left-wing rallies were held on January 6 in support of democracy....

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Interference Archive Traces the History of Racist Policing in America

Defend/Defund, a welcome new exhibit at Interference Archive, through January 29

January 4, 2023 • by Lindsey Scharold

The exhibition is in part a response to George Floyd’s murder, and of Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Philando Castile before him. But its scope is much broader. Hung on just about every wall are posters, newspapers, pamphlets, zines, and even buttons that catalog the long history of negative police ...