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In her work O Barracão, Canadian photographer Chantal Simone explores the spiritual, physical, and ancestral dimensions of Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion, through the main ceremonial hall of a Bantu-based terreiro in Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on decades of engagement with the Black Atlantic and her encounters with Afro-Cuban spirituality, Simone moves beyond conventional documentary …

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 …