“When did everyone become Black and not of specific nations themselves? Why did being Black mean not belonging to a place?”

Charlene A. Carruthers
Charlene A. Carruthers (she/her) is a writer, filmmaker, and Black studies PhD student at Northwestern University. Her work interrogates historical conjunctures of Black freedom-making postemancipation and decolonial revolution, Black governance, and Black feminist abolitionist geographies. She is the author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements.