Namwali Serpell Morrison Hall A recent exhibit of Toni Morrison’s papers raised the question: How do you mourn a monument? August 18, 2023
Scott W. Stern A Toxic Bottom Line “Solidarity between the environmental and labor movements would be powerful because it could provide a vision of a future that isn’t based on extraction.” March 25, 2023
Maya Binyam Hiding in Plain Sight The filmmaker Garrett Bradley uses archival material—home movies, fragments of early black cinema—to reimagine the present. February 13, 2023
Saidiya Hartman The Hold of Slavery In the archive of slavery, I encountered a paradox: the recognition of the slave’s humanity and status as a subject extended and intensified servitude and dispossession. October 24, 2022