As a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Simmons Center and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, I have been anchoring the Historical Injustice and Democracy Research Cluster, a joint collaborative project between these institutions that focuses on the legacies of colonialism and racial slavery in the making of the modern world. This research cluster offered an undergraduate course and series of lectures about slavery, race, and resistance in Haiti, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica, and the United States in 2022; and organized a workshop titled “Slavery, Democracy, and Racial Violence in the Americas” in the spring of 2023. This event brought together scholars and political activists to discuss the making of distinct regimes of race and racial violence across the continent, connecting the history of colonialism and the enslavement of Indigenous and African peoples to current dilemmas of contemporary societies like police brutality and mass incarceration. One of the main objectives of these initiatives was to move beyond the American paradigm of racial violence and offer a transnational and comparative perspective of this phenomenon by focusing on the historical experiences of slavery and racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. The seminar series and the workshop offered theoretical and analytical contributions to students, scholars, and political activists who wish to understand the past to resist the historical injustices of our time.