The Makings of Black Lives Matter and Public Seminar
Reflections of an old New Leftist on the Race/isms Book Forum
The OJ Simpson Verdict, Jury Nullification and Black Lives Matter: The Power to Acquit
The nation is, once again, caught up in the OJ Simpson trial because of two riveting series that revisit the case. The FX mini-series, American Crime Story, and the ESPN documentary, OJ: Made in America, provide their audiences with a level of detail and sociological interpretation that can only be achieved 20 years after the trial. …
Black Lives Matter: The Politics of Race and Movement in the 21st Century
Understanding the movement and what it represents
Where should we begin in accounting for the rise of the movement for black lives?
The tragedy of 21st century America is that there are innumerable places one could begin. The grievances that have sparked the cry, “Black Lives Matter,” might be rooted in the killing of black bodies at the hands of police, …
#BlackLivesMatter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
What active citizenship can look like and what it can accomplish
#BlackLivesMatter and #Fightfor15
Building movements for racial and economic justice
It may be that in 20 or 30 years we will look back to 2015 as the year that things really began to change in the U.S. This was the year we saw the intersection of the movement for higher wages and Black Lives Matter really begin to crystalize.
Let’s go back to 2011. On September 17, activists began occupying Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, calling attention to the growing inequality between the 99% and 1%, …
Black Insurgency, Anti-Racism, and the Student Mobilization Against Guns
The similarities and differences of these social movements