Left: Rally at the place de la République in Paris on 15 November 2015 (Credit: Citron / CC-BY-SA-3.0). Right: Protest at the place de la République in Paris on 28 May 2024 (Credit: Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP). My very first post on this...
Author: Melissa Byrnes
People attend a march in tribute to Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer during a traffic stop, in Nanterre, Paris, on June 29, 2023. The slogan.
Paris, Pont Saint-Michel, 1961: "Here we drown Algerians" Sixty years ago today, Algerian migrants around the Paris region gathered for a peaceful march to protest a restrictive and discriminatory curfew..
"Together against our broken systems," BLM poster, Paris, Batignolles, June 2020 (Langladure, Wikimedia Commons) So, apparently, we've endangered the French Republic. "We" here is US academics who talk about race. And "endanger" seems to mean that the idea that racism needs to be taken seriously...
The scene was, as of yesterday, eerily familiar. A throng of right-wing extremists, including multiple paramilitary groups, rioted at the gates of the legislature. The setting was Paris; the date.
Régine Jean-Charles just put out an excellent analysis of Barrett's description of her children during her confirmation hearing. Subjecting the young children of public figures to extra scrutiny can be.
Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Inc. 1286, f. 008v 2020 has been quite a year for history lessons. In the midst of so much madness, folks keep looking to historians for parallels or templates, or even just what not to do (this last is our professional specialty)....
Photo credit: Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons Albert Memmi, the Franco-Tunisian writer, died on May 22. Memmi is best known for his meditations on colonialism, racism, and Jewishness. Born in.
French President Emmanuel Macron wears a patriotic face mask to speak with schoolchildren (AP photo/Ian Langsdon) First off, hello! How’s everyone doing? It’s been awhile. I made a tiny human.
Jonathan Macintosh, 2009 As if the last 24 hours haven't been horrific enough, Slate and CNN bring us this headline: "El Paso Shooting Victims Might Avoid Hospitals Due to Immigration Status." And this is where we see US state terror actively aiding and abetting the...
Those currently claiming to "protect" the memory of camp survivors conveniently forget those survivors who fought to ensure all concentration camps would be properly identified. Emma Kuby, an expert on.
Thirty years ago today, iconic protests against authoritarian regimes took place in both Poland and China. Their different trajectories have led to very different stories--and different silences. Here are some.