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Supreme Court Rejects Racist Jury Claim by Death Row Inmate Who Gouged His Eyes Out
Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the dissent that a biased jury compromised his trial.
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Lowndes County, Ala.: The Place God Forgot
"It seems like everybody forgot about Lowndes County ... even God.”
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The New Lynching Memorial and Legacy Museum Force Us to Bear Witness to Our Whole American Truth
It’s time to take this story to the masses.It’s time to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.May the other side of his-story now be entered into the record, the narrative, the myth of these United States of America. Forever and ever. Amen. “We love talking about 19th-century history and not…
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Happy Confederate Day! On Lynching Memorials and Winning the Narrative War
On Monday, Alabama is set to observe Confederate Memorial Day, commemorating the sons of the South killed in the Civil War. No surprise there. Alabama loves fighting with Mississippi for the title of “most racist state” (though they actually may be running neck and neck with “everything south of the Canadian border,” if we’re keeping…