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Slavery, the Plantation Myth, and Alternative Facts

Earlier this year, NBC journalist Chuck Todd pressed the Counselor to the US President, Kellyanne Conway, to explain spurious claims made

“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s

This is an excerpt from the preface of Andrew T. Fede’s Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the

On July 11, 2017, a video circulated throughout social media depicting the San Diego police deploying a canine against an

In a recent interview with Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Commission, stated, “What we do in the memorial