Author: M. Odom

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‘Pressed to the Wall … But Fighting Back’: The Black Radical Tradition and the Legacy of the Chicago Race Riots 1919

November 20, 2019 M. Odom
Recently, I watched the opening episode of the new HBO series “Watchmen.” Like millions of other viewers, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the episode began with the white terrorist assault on the community […]
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Slavery, Settler Colonialism, Gender Oppression and Resistance in the Early Colonial Years

March 25, 2019 M. Odom
This year marks 400 years since “20 and odd” enslaved Africans on board a Dutch frigate were traded for supplies to English settlers at Jamestown. As historians have noted, these African captives were not the […]
Political Prisoners

Kevin Cooper, an appeal for freedom and prison abolition

March 2, 2019 M. Odom
To very little fanfare, in December 2018, new DNA testing was ordered for California death row inmate Kevin Cooper, a Black man accused of killing four white people.   For over 30 years, Cooper has […]