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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ▪ Fall 2018 Richard Nixon, HUD Secretary Romney, and D.C. Mayor Washington tour a neighborhood damaged by riots after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. (Wally McNamee ...
Colin Gordon ▪ June 29, 2022 Plans for the Baldwin Terrace housing development (Plat Book 22, Page 35, St. Louis County Recorder of Deeds, Clayton, Missouri) . Recent scholarship and reporting ...
Michelle Chen ▪ April 16, 2021 The Penobscot Nation has embraced the wellness court as an alternative to incarceration. (North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy Stock Photo) When Kris Loring ...
Timothy Shenk ▪ April 25, 2022 Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama arrive to deliver remarks on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid on April 5, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) ...
Colin Gordon ▪ August 9, 2019 Ferguson, Missouri, August 19, 2014 (Justin Norman) . The Hurst Children, 1965. Lottie Mae, Willie Hurst, and their seven children lived at 209 Handy Street in ...
Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 17, 2022 Jerry Falwell in 1988 (Bettmann/Getty) . Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.
For four decades, the Court has struggled over the meaning of the anti-discrimination principle of Brown v.Board of Education, and by extension over the place of race in the constitutional ...
Suzanne Schneider ▪ Spring 2024 Conservative legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich testifies at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem ...
Leta Hong Fincher ▪ Fall 2016 Li Maizi (left) takes part in a 2012 protest against domestic violence in Beijing. Photo courtesy of Media Monitor for Women Network. When Chinese police detained ...
Perry’s South to America is inspired by Albert L. Murray’s genre-bending travelogue and poetical memoir, South to a Very Old Place.Like Murray, Perry moves between autobiography, literary criticism, ...
Max Fraser: Films about African-American characters and communities—especially those that take place in the present rather than the historical past—rarely seem to adopt a rural framing.Why was that ...
Mark Engler: If we were to make a timeline, what would you say was the first big campaign in the current drive against mass incarceration here? Was it stopping L.A. County’s plan for prison expansion?