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Police Dogs and Anti-Black Violence

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

This month, I interviewed Professor Elizabeth Kai Hinton on her new book, The War on Poverty to the War on

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

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her