SELECTED ESSAYS

The Amazon union drive showed us
the future of US labor

The Guardian | April 27, 2021

​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.

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

Winning is hard
​but necessary

Hammer & Hope | Fall 2024

What I learned when I helped lead the 2023
​Rutgers University strike.

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SELECTED VIDEOS

Rutgers on Strike: Donna Murch on Democracy Now!
April 14, 2023

A conversation with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! about the historic strike at Rutgers University.

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

How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

Boston Review | April 9, 2019

The success of OxyContin hinged on racially bifurcated understandings of addiction.

Paying for Punishment

Boston Review | August 1, 2016
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Debt still sends many people—especially Black people—to jail.

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.