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Ahmaud Arbery
March 31, 2022
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Maya Wiley
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act Will Protect All of Us
Hate crimes of all kinds, and against all kinds of people, are still far too prevalent in American society. And they are massively underreported.
November 18, 2021
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Maya Wiley
Three Trials, One Lesson: Race, Injustice, and Fear Still Rule
How about we worry a little less about post-verdict demonstrations and a little more about the fascistic hate that is on the rise in the United States?
November 18, 2021
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Molly Osberg
Why Kyle Rittenhouse Is a Right-Wing Hero and Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Are Not
Both trials involve armed white men who deputized themselves to kill, but the disparate response to the two cases is deeply revealing.
August 24, 2020
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Melissa Gira Grant
When “Police Reform” Came to Kenosha, Wisconsin
Jacob Blake was critically injured when cops shot him in the back on Sunday. Six years ago, a new law was supposed to bring change.
May 21, 2020
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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
The Unmattering of Black Lives
In the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, we see that the violence of the past is the violence of the present.
May 16, 2020
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Zoé Samudzi
White Witness and the Contemporary Lynching
The belief that passive viewership can translate into structural justice is an idea as misguided as it is old.
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