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Ida B. Wells, Police Violence, and the Legacy of Lynching

The recent police shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota bring to the surface, yet again,

In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”- Steven Biko Muhammad Ali

It is virtually forbidden–as an unpatriotic act–that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood. –James Baldwin The dominant

Today, Neil Roberts concludes the roundtable on his book Freedom as Marronage. We began with an introduction by Jared Hardesty