by Kevin Abourezk | Feb 16, 2026 | Dakota, Detention Centers, Minnesota, Native Americans, News, Tribal Lands, US history
Fort Snelling, Minnesota – Last week, Native activists established a prayer camp near the site of a former internment camp for Dakota people. The camp was established in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, just across a highway from the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, which has become a major center for immigration enforcement detainment processing, but the site has a much longer and more…
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by Kim Wilson | Jan 8, 2026 | Emmett Till, Interview, Jim Crow, Racism, Trauma, US history, victimhood, White Supremacy, whiteness
Emmett Till is someone that we know through documentaries, writings, photos, and inadequate history lessons. Open Casket: Philosophical Meditations on the Lynching of Emmett Till draws us unsettlingly and lovingly close to Emmett Till, and to his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. George Yancy’s and A. Todd Franklin’s breathtaking new anthology brings us face-to-face with the disquieting sorrow of Black…
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