The Connected Histories of #StopAAPIHate and #BlackLivesMatter
The murder of six women of Asian descent and two other victims in Atlanta by a white male gunman precipitated
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Lynchings
Losing Willie McGee
The toll a failed political campaign takes on an individual can be devastating, none more so than when a life
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Ida Taught Me
In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She
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The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina
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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Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality
In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a
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