When You’re The Only One Watching The World Burn
One former undergraduate explains how Black Lives Matter protests altered their life trajectory.
Tag: Black Lives Matter
Masks Up, Don’t Shoot
Kashae Garland and Black students at Villanova University sparked a social movement to redefine the campus and its culture.
When No Place is Home: Braving a Pandemic, Resisting White Supremacy, and Surviving Homophobia
An anonymous undergraduate shares their difficulties in finding a safe and accepting living situation.
Dancing Decolonization: Embodying Communal Pedagogical Practices
There is so much learning and unlearning to do and teaching dance is one of my entry points into anti-racist work.
The Aesthetics of Direct Action
Artists, like protestors, disrupt existing ways of viewing the world to reimagine our lives around truth, goodness, and beauty.
Breakthrough Verdict?
After seven years of Black Lives Matter, and looking back at several decades of mass incarceration, justice on paper seems less of a triumph.
Transformed by the Darkness: Protest, Pandemic and the Process of Self-Discovery
Despite bringing devastation to his city and family, the pandemic offered Guttman Community College student Brandon Rodriguez an opportunity to slow down and reorient his priorities.
Call For Contributors: New and Old Normals
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our September 2020 issue, “New and Old Normals”.
How do We Seek “Justice for George”?
Putting a more compassionate and humane face to a grave inhumanity cannot be justice.
Come Unity: Activism in the Virtual Realm
“Come.Unity” serves as a gathering place for Black optimism, fostering a Black future without Black death at its end but an end with joy—a communal victory dance.
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