Spanish New Orleans enslavers, strategy vs. consent, and Black woman-themed affirmations. It’s time for a research post.

Sally Hemings, DNA, and the What ifs of White Paternity

“What I also want people to understand is that as difficult as this history is, it’s ripe with optimism.” Lonnie Bunch

I love you too much for that

Territories (not Maps) for the Fight Ahead

Seeing is never just believing

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The Fight for Black Data is Diasporic

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The Fight for Black Data is Diasporic

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Remembering the Second Middle Passage

Jessica Marie Johnson, Kathe Hambrick, Eduard Arriaga, and Alexandre White will present as part of panel, Ecologas de Datos Negros: Archivo, territorio y redes comunitarias

Celebrating work and community and coming together despite a strange and dark year!

Elizabeth Freeman knew “something is not like slavery.” Only slavery is slavery.

We watch from the future with craving in our eyes.

May Njinga's Anger Fuel Our Power

A revised version of our preprint is now up!

Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...

The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.

The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

It’s been 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death and the Uprising. It will be the 611th West Wednesday calling for justice for Tyrone West.

“Everybody was all in.” It’s a bit of a full circle moment to hear this statement come from my father 10 years after I witnessed him pulling up outside our house, looking dazed and half-asleep. I was ...

Ongoing In the Wake Of: Resilience and Revolution: Focusing on the intersection of social unrest and artistic expression, this exhibition features the works of Devin Allen, Joe Giordano, and Paul Abow...

“I think the death of Freddie Gray inspired a whole new generation of activists,” photographer Devin Allen tells me on a phone call earlier this year.  At the time of Gray’s death, Allen was beginning...

As day turned to night in Baltimore on April 27, 2015, the number of arrests for disorderly conduct, failure to obey, and destruction of property ticked upward. What began as street protests over the ...

On the morning of April 12, 2015, at about 8:48 a.m., a 25-year-old Black man named Freddie Carlos Gray Jr. allegedly made eye contact with a police officer at the corner of North and Mount, where he was walking with his friends Brandon Ross and Davonte Roary looking for breakfast from a carryout. Gray and […]

Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism. I felt pushed to think seriously about the way class com...

An immigration judge on Tuesday gave the U.S. government a day to show its evidence that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be deported and said she would rule on the government's case on Friday, a month after he was arrested in New York and transferred 1,200 miles to a rural Louisiana jail.

A federal judge ordered the White House to restore the outlet’s access to certain White House events and agreed that it had been singled out over its editorial decisions.