By Randy ShawBeyond ChronMay 10th, 2018 When I got the new graphic novelette, The Young C.L. R. James, I realized…
Black Studies
MAROON UNCHAINED: A People’s Victory!
For immediate release: February 21, 2014 The international movement to free political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz from solitary confinement has…
Maroon the Implacable: A Review in Solidarity
By Steve BloomSolidarityJuly/August 2013 RUSSELL MAROON SHOATZ is not a household name. Even within the milieu of those who are…
This Professor Has Collected American Racism in a College’s Basement
By Julian WyllieThe Chronicle of Higher EducationApril 5th, 2018 David Pilgrim says the first racist object he acquired, at 12…
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum: A Review
By Phyllis Wilson MooreSouthern Literary ReviewJuly 24th, 2019 Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum (PM…
The Young C.L.R. James in Race & Class
By Christian HogsbjergRace & ClassMarch 2019 The republication, thirty years after it was first written in 1988, of Paul Buhle’s…
‘I will never put an institution over human lives’: A black Baptist minister acts against white supremacy
CBC RadioNovember 19, 2017 What do you do when two of the most elemental parts of your identity feel as…
Maroon Comix: A By Any Means Necessary Interview with Quincy Saul
By Eugene Puryear and Sean BlackmonBy Any Means Necessary July 19th, 2018 On this episode of “By Any Means Necessary”…
Maroon Comix in Transformative Justice Journal
By Mechthild Nagel Transformative Justice Journal June 2019 Author: Mechthild Nagel E-mail: [email protected] Institute: Philosophy Department, SUNY Cortland Address: POB 2000,…
‘Breaking’ Presents: Juliana ‘Jewels’ Smith, Educator-Turned-Comic Writer
By Sameer RaoColorlinesApril 13th, 2018 The Bay Area resident, inspired by how comics connected with her community college students, developed “(H)afrocentric”…