The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...the old segregationists’ strategies—banning government financing of segregated private schools—had a robust but short-lived revival in the early 1980s. Chief Justice Warren Burger used majestic language in 1983, holding that...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...the courts and jails, some for long periods of their lives. In the 1930s, as mass pressure was forcing an end to public lynching, the treatment of the nine defendants...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...The Fire Ever Burning (2000, with Aaron Henry); Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement (2000); Captive Lives (2000); a special issue of the journal Southern...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...historic markers at the forty-one Middle Passage arrival ports publicly designates these places as crucial points where the lives of European and African people intersected to form what would become...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...way for Black families to live on the west side of Center Street—but not without brutal backlash. The area was bombed so frequently it became known as "Dynamite Hill," in...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...urban landscape, e.g. occupancy of office buildings; closure of retail stores; restructuring of restaurants and pedestrian spaces? How are the over one million lives lost to Covid in the United...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...travelled together while doing research. And we spoke with people in Chauvin, and were part of their lives. We travelled with them too. The word conversation comes from conversatio, or...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasília, and Porto Alegre, this project charts the simultaneous constructions of race and science through SCD across Brazil. When I lived in Brazil in 2013, I...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...key natural resources. These measures should bring about a radical decentralization of power in order to give local people and communities greater control over their lives and prospects. All these...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...the University of Georgia Press in 2008. Hill is an editor at Broadsided Press. He lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. More information, as well as poems, can be found at his...