What Lies Beneath the Ink? Tattoos and Personal Identity

What Lies Beneath the Ink? Tattoos and Personal Identity

View the video of this event here. October 13, 2016 Beneath tattoos are the meanings they have for the people wearing them. A philosophy of tattoos must recognize the personal and particular identities, values and ideals of those who wear them. Although meaning lies...
Reform, Don’t Abolish, the NYPD

Reform, Don’t Abolish, the NYPD

“What do you do with an institution [police] whose core function is the control and elimination of black people specifically, and people of color and the poor more broadly? You abolish it.” Thus writes Mychal Denzel Smith, echoing James Baldwin’s anguish some 50 years...