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One Year after Las Vegas

Where does the gun control debate stand?

October 9, 2018 • by Christopher Howard-Woods

Within a period of about ten minutes, 64-year old Stephen Paddock, positioned from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, fired 1,100 rounds of ammunition into an open crowd one year ago last week. The deadliest of its kind to date, the incident took the lives ...

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Becoming the Face of Change

Gerard Campbell reflects on his life journey through poetry

September 23, 2018 • by Gerard Campbell

The building was isolated, far upstate. Its residents lived in small dorm-style rooms whose doors had small windows on them. Each hallway had a staff member on one end and a staff member on the other. Everyone had to be accounted for and in their place; one wrong move and ...

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Explosive Objects

How the murder of Trayvon Martin made everyday items extraordinary

September 12, 2018 • by Robyn Autry

Watching Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story this summer, I was struck by how much our memories of the tragic encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin is shaped by objects. The gun. The hoodie. The Skittles wrapper. There were other objects too, some from that night -- the cell phone ...

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A Shared Commitment

Concluding thoughts on, ‘Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention’

September 10, 2018 • by Jaskiran Dhillon

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a ...

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Beyond Gestures in Socially Engaged Art

Community processing and ‘A Color Removed’

September 6, 2018 • by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

On November 22, 2014, in Cleveland Ohio, Officers Frank Garmback and Timothy Loehmann responded to the dispatch of a young man pointing around a gun outside the “Cudell Commons,” a public recreation center in a largely African-American neighborhood tense with gun violence. The dispatcher neglected to emphasize that the caller said ...

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We Will Not Abandon You

Urban Indigenous Youth and the Struggle for Decolonization

September 5, 2018 • by Melanie Yazzie

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a ...

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Ágnes Heller: Orbán is a Tyrant

From the time he became the prime minister of Hungary, Orban was always interested in concentrating all the power in his hands.

August 26, 2018 • by Jan Smoleński

Jan Smoleński: Is Viktor Orban a populist? Agnes Heller*: I do not like the term populist as it is used in the context of Viktor Orban, because it does not say anything. Populists rely typically on poor people. Orban uses nationalistic vocabulary and rhetoric, he mobilizes hatred against the stranger and ...

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An Interview with Robert W. Fieseler

Christopher Gioia sits down with the author of, ‘Tinderbox: The Untold Story of The Up Stairs Lounge Fire and The Rise of Gay Liberation’

August 9, 2018 • by Christopher Gioia and Robert W. Fieseler

Christopher Gioia interviewed Robert W. Fieseler for Public Seminar about his newly minted book chronicling a heinous act of arson that resulted in the death of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at The Up Stairs Lounge -- a gay bar in New Orleans. By turns sedulous ...

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Public Space, Public Art, and Public Memory

Responding to the Neo-Nazi Trial Verdict in Jena

August 3, 2018 • by Irit Dekel

Jeffrey C. Goldfarb is off today. He has selected this piece on the complexities of public memory as this week's Gray Friday post. On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 the verdict of five of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) members was given in the Higher Regional Court in Munich. Beate Zschäpe, the ...

Public Space, Public Art, and Public Memory

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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of The Up Stairs Lounge Fire and The Rise of Gay Liberation

An excerpt from Robert W. Fieseler’s latest book

August 3, 2018 • by Robert W. Fieseler

The passage below is an excerpt from Robert W. Fieseler’s recently released book chronicling a heinous act of arson that resulted in the death of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at The Up Stairs Lounge -- a gay bar in New Orleans. By turns sedulous and ...

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of The Up Stairs Lounge Fire and The Rise of Gay Liberation

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Gustavo Petro and the Colombian Populist Moment

An interview with Luciana Cadahia

August 2, 2018 • by Gerardo Muñoz

Luciana Cadahia (Ph.D. Unidad Autónoma de Madrid [UAM]) is one of the most original voices in contemporary Latin American political thought. Although her academic work has focused on debates in political theory and the tradition of German Idealism, her recent interventions on populism and democratic theory are charged with a theoretical depth that ...

Gustavo Petro and the Colombian Populist Moment

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Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History

A review of Steven Zipperstein’s new book

July 5, 2018 • by Marci Shore

Steven Zipperstein’s new book, Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History, is uncannily timely: today in particular we might appreciate the irony of fate that American anti-racism can trace one line of origin to a backwoods region of the Russian Empire. This region, Bessarabia, is among those parts of Eastern Europe ...