By Dan-El Padilla-Peralta For our convening, I offer for consideration a figure who occupies a marginal and possibly spectral position in the writings of Marx and Du Bois – the Native American – because of a process that, though targeted… Continue Reading
By Étienne Balibar, translated by Xavier Flory Afterword to a new edition[1] Although not the most widely disseminated “communist” book of all time—that honor belongs to “The Little Red Book,” or Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which is almost in… Continue Reading
Dominican by birth and New Yorker by upbringing, he tricked himself into writing four junior papers and two senior theses en route to graduating summa cum laude from Princeton in Classics with a WWS certificate (2006; Latin Salutatory). He held the Daniel… Continue Reading
A singer and composer of eclectic tastes and prodigious gifts, Grammy-nominated Theo Bleckmann makes music that is accessibly sophisticated, unsentimentally emotional, and seriously playful. Bleckmann has released a series of albums on Winter & Winter, including recordings of Las Vegas… Continue Reading
By Mayaki Kimba “I don’t think we could ever truly get justice for Matthew. He was only nineteen years old. He had his whole life ahead of him, and he was just executed. They shot multiple times at his car,… Continue Reading
By Mayaki Kimba In her foreword to the 133rd volume of the Harvard Law Review, Dorothy Roberts writes that “today’s prison abolitionists are the heirs to a freedom movement that antislavery activists began.”[1] Embracing this idea, Abolition 13/13 began with… Continue Reading
By Rebecca Stout Using the history of slavery as a grounding for their arguments, Abolition 4/13’s readings incorporated an excellent combination of discussion on the Thirteenth Amendment, methods and archives, and women’s experiences and the role of reproduction in Atlantic… Continue Reading
By Sania Anwar Abolition is a reckoning. A reckoning so profound and exact, in creating and fulfilling the antithetical to what is dismantled, that it can offer redemption along with emancipation. Eric Foner’s “The Second Founding” is the account of… Continue Reading