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Mapping Downtown Asheville Through Protest: Black Lives Matter and Public Spaces

This is a guest post by Nathan H. Dize, a PhD student in the Department of French and Italian at

“We have a duty to fight for our freedom. We have a duty to win.” – Assata Shakur Watching the

Think the current controversy over “black lives matter” is new? African American activists wrestled with the question almost 200 years

“Don’t you see no connection between atom-bomb-dropping in Japan and shin-kicking in Virginia?” asked Simple. “No direct connection,” I said.

With the passing of Muhammad Ali – boxing’s greatest pugilist, most electric persona, and fiercest champion for racial justice –