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Tyre Nichols and the Complexity of Institutional Racism

February 1, 2023January 31, 2023 Anique John 7 Comments
black lives matter, Racial Violence, racism

Racial injustice, institutional racism, and police brutality are painful aspects of our society that we have not and should never

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The Life of Louis Fatio: American Slavery and Indigenous Sovereignty

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Caroline Wood Newhall 2 Comments
race, slavery, South

In 1892 a reporter for the Missouri-based Daily Globe-Democrat interviewed an elderly Black man by the name of Louis Fatio living near

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The History of Sexual Policing

August 19, 2022August 12, 2022 Charlotte Rosen #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Police, prisons, sexual violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us A few years back,

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From Police Power to Police Practice

August 18, 2022August 12, 2022 DeAnza A. Cook #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Police, prisons

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us The United States of

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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