Political Resistance and Engagement

Graffiti covers the walls of the hotel room of Mark Essex.

The Writings of Mark Essex

Initially written off as “crazy,” the New Orleans Sniper’s ideas reflected a more widely held sentiment of rage among Black youth.

An 1868 political cartoon by Thomas Nast “Patience on a Monument,” depicting the horrors suffered by African Americans and the efforts by the Republican Party's Reconstruction to help rectify the injustice.

The Monument to Patience

It was never built. And thus, in our age of toppling monuments, it never came down. But in October 1868, Thomas Nast imagined a monument to racial violence that continues to haunt us.

Bombing MOVE

Bombing MOVE

What constitutes terrorism? How the Philadelphia police turned a neighborhood to ashes and the desecration of the remains of the dead that followed.