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Can a prison become a school of revolution? George Jackson’s writings transformed his experience of incarceration into a radical reflection on marginalisation, race, class, and political struggle. In this article, Vittoria Lamorgese traces Jackson’s legacy from the Black Panther Party to the Italian prisons of the 1970s, exploring the unexpected connections between Black prisoners in the United …

What did Pier Paolo Pasolini see in America? In 1966, Pasolini arrived in New York expecting to encounter the heart of American capitalism. Instead, he found a country that fascinated him: young, contradictory and shaken by the Civil Rights Movement, opposition to the Vietnam War and the emergence of the New Left. For Pasolini, the United States was a society without the class consciousness of …

What happens when a dance born from resistance becomes an Olympic sport? From the roda of capoeira to the cyphers of the Bronx, this article traces the unexpected connection between two Afro-diasporic practices shaped by rhythm, confrontation and community: capoeira and breaking. It follows how both practices have travelled, evolved and been reclaimed as tools of identity and empowerment, while …