Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory, Racial Microaggressions, and Campus Racial Climate: The Experiences of African American College Students by Daniel Solorzano, Miguel Ceja, and Tara Yosso, The Journal of Negro Education Abstract: Microaggressions are subtle insults (verbal,...

Voting Rights and Mass Incarceration

Voting Rights in the Era of Mass Incarceration: A Primer by Jean Chung and Kevin Muhitch, The Sentencing Project Abstract: The dramatic growth of the US prison population and the corresponding reach of the criminal legal system over the last 40 years has led to high...

U.S Black Politics

Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of U.S. Black Politics: From Democratic Sacrifice to Democratic Repair by Juliet Hooker, Political Theory Journal, 2016 Abstract: This essay seeks to understand the complex response to the current Black Lives Matter protests...

Police Brutality and the Criminal Justice System

African Americans, Police Brutality, and the Criminal Justice System: an Introduction by Clarence Taylor, the Journal of African American History Abstract: There has been a major focus on African Americans and the US criminal justice system, particulary around the...

BLM and Healthcare (COVID-19)

Black Lives Matter in health promotion: moving from unspoken to outspoken By Stephanie Leitch et al Abstract Racism is a public health crisis. Black communities (including Africans, the African diaspora and people of African descent) experience worse health outcomes...

Analyzing BLM Protests

Black Lives Matter Protesters Were Overwhelmingly Peaceful, Our Research Finds By Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman Abstract: The Black Lives Matter uprisings were remarkably nonviolent. When there was violence, very often police or counterprotesters were reportedly...