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The Legacy of the 1968 Rebellion for Today’s Protests in ‘Chocolate City’

In 1968, Washington Post journalists Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood named police brutality as one of the factors motivating protestors

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane.

Over the past week, numerous public officials—faced with disruptive protests around police brutality and racial inequality in the age of

Since March, I’ve been teaching an introductory social sciences seminar which has the thematic focus of “race and democracy.” We

In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She