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George YancyCounterPunch |
After the election, I received several texts and email messages expressing a deep sense of sorrow, angst, dread and heartbreak. Personally, I felt...
Care work and parenting work are not an accessory to abolition — they are core to the struggle itself.
In The Black Image in the White Mind, historian George M. Frederickson writes, “In the years immediately before and after 1800, white Americans...
“I see promise in the connections between the 2020 protests against anti-Blackness and the 2023-2024 protests against Palestinian genocide,”...
In my book, Black Bodies, White Gazes, I interrogate the white gaze, which I describe as a structural and habitual way of racially distorting the...
This year, the 300th anniversary of the birth of German philosopher Immanuel Kant was commemorated. Born on April 22, 1724, Kant was a significant...
The concept of complete freedom from the weight of racial oppression/anti-Blackness has always been a dream for Black people in the United States,...
Israel’s likely war crimes and genocide in Gaza since October — as well as its brutality in the decades preceding its recent attacks — are...
Universities are using draconian measures against student protesters who refuse to deem Palestinian suffering “unreal.”
“As a Black feminist philosopher, I have come to expect practices, strategies — not answers,” scholar Jeanine Weekes Schroer told me in a recent...
James Baldwin once said Black history is emboldening because “it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.” His...
In February 1926, the Black historian and scholar Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week, which later became known as Black History Month....
As we celebrate Black History Month, it is important that we not think of that history as complete. The Black diaspora constitutes a complex...
I know what it is like to be a Black philosopher within predominantly white spaces. I know that sense of feeling invisible and alienated. But until...
As we honor the 38th celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I feel a deep burning sense of unspeakable sadness in my soul — at other times,...
The body is precarious. That is, as embodied people, we are all precarious, interdependent, fragile, vulnerable. As much as neoliberalism would like...
In 1962, James Baldwin wrote “A Letter to My Nephew.” The letter communicates Baldwin’s anger, his frustration, his commitment to radical...
In deep times of sorrow and catastrophe, some of us flee. We flee either because we don’t want to face the weight and ugliness of the horror —...