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Kimberly Bain is the John Holmes Assistant Professor in the Humanities in the Department of English at Tufts University. Her book project, entitled On Black Breath, is a genealogy of Black breathing in the United States.
  • Still Breathing

    Still Breathing

    In this essay from Protean’s third print issue, now online, Kimberly Bain reflects on grief and memory: on the still-resonating echoes of Emmett Till’s death and his mother’s cry, on Nina Simone, on Black mourning across historical time.