Issues for the week of June 5, 2020 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of June 5

Introduction
#BlackLivesMatter
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
Killer Mike on the Murder of George Floyd
Killer Mike
Rapper, songwriter, actor, and activist.
Special Issue: The New School Responds
In the Face of Terror
Dwight A. McBride
President of The New School
An American Reckoning
Deva Woodly
Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at The New School for Social Research
The Anti-Racist Uprising in Brooklyn
Natasha Lennard
Journalist and author
Enough Is Enough
Jeremy Varon
Professor of History, New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College
Wired Politics
Claire Potter
Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research
The Whole World is Watching
James Miller
Professor of Politics and Liberal Studies and Faculty Director of the MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism, New School for Social Research
What Is to Be Done?
Eli Zaretsky, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb and Elzbieta Matynia
Photo Essay: The Side Streets
Janet Roitman
Professor of Anthropology at The New School
Violence
Amy Cooper: The Paradox of the Shameless White Liberal
Musa al-Gharbi
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology at Columbia University
Post-Truth
Misinformation in a Moment of Crisis is Incredibly Dangerous
Jonathan Beale
Visiting research fellow in philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. @DrJonathanBeale
Reflections
Sentencing the Present: Part Five
Benjamin Bernard, Jonathon Catlin, Benjamin P. Davis, Jodi Dean, Shannon Hoff, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Zein Murib, Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Rocío Zambrana