Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence
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Law and legal history
The Supreme Court and Racial Inequality
The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth
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How Policing Black Women’s Bodies Built the Modern City
This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us In a statement both
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Earl Anthony and the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party was founded on October 15, 1966, with Earl Anthony joining the following April. His 1990 book,
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Black Women’s Expansive Vision For Reproductive Freedom
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” When Elaine Brown took the helm of
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