DONNA MURCH
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SELECTED ESSAYS

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The Amazon union drive showed us
the future of US labor

The Guardian | April 27, 2021

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In contrast to the stereotype of the union worker
as a white man in a hard hat, today’s labor
movement skews black, brown and female.
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A historian's claims about Martin Luther King are shocking – and irresponsible
The Guardian | June 8, 2019

​A recent essay claims the civil rights leader was present during a rape, but the evidence is shaky and there’s reason to be skeptical

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How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
Boston Review | April 9, 2019

The success of OxyContin hinged on racially bifurcated understandings of addiction. The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine, after all, has always been the race and class of users.

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SELECTED VIDEOS

Assata Taught Me book launch
July 16, 2022


A conversation with Chenjerai Kumanyika to launch Assata Taught Me.
Assata Taught Me book launch
April 16, 2022


A conversation with Barbara Ransby to launch Assata Taught Me.
The Black Panther Party
April 11, 2022


A special conversation with W. Paul Coates, Donna Murch, Soffiyah Elijah and Charles Jones

Black Radicalism and the Spectre of Racial Fascism
February 10, 2022


A lecture hosted by the American Academy in Rome.

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Additional ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS

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Paying for Punishment
Boston Review | August 1, 2016
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Debt still sends many people—especially Black people—to jail.
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Who’s To Blame for Mass Incarceration?
Boston Review | October 16, 2015
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Michael Javen Fortner’s Black Silent Majority makes the controversial case that African Americans backed the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
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