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The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at

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Lynching and the Rise of Black Activism in Memphis

October 9, 2018October 17, 2018 Darius J. Young lynching, race, Racial Violence, racism, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light “All the savor had gone out of life.

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History, Memory, and Racial Violence in America

June 8, 2018June 12, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Historical Memory, Historiography, Jim Crow, lynching, mass incarceration, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, South, white supremacy

In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) opened the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National

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“Left Exposed to View!”: Black Women and Sexualized Violence

May 11, 2018May 15, 2018 Trimiko Melancon lynching, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, Resistance, sexual violence

In May 1962, Malcolm X delivered a commanding speech with his now infamous lines regarding the positionality of Black women:

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Afro-Brazilians and Contemporary Lynchings in Brazil

April 19, 2018April 24, 2018 Jaimee A. Swift African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, lynching, Racial Violence, violence, white supremacy

In historical understandings of racial violence against African Americans in the United States, lynching typically summons imagery of white crime

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