Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six
The four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central
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Author: Denise Lynn
Roberta Elder: The Case of a Black Woman Serial Killer
The killings may have started as early as 1938, but no one suspected murder until Reverend William M. Elder died
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Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality
In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a
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Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide
In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the
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Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom
On August 3, 1952, Ruby McCollum walked into Dr. C. LeRoy Adams’s medical practice in Live Oak, Florida and shot
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