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21 Aug 2018, 7:31 am by ernst
Jim Crow was especially characterized by the act of lynching, the extrajudicial killing, often, of African American males. [read post]
12 Aug 2018, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Tony Award winning playwright George Wolfe, poet Maya Angelou, poet Rita Dove, U.S. [read post]
12 Jul 2018, 11:00 am by Chimène Keitner
Using language that has since been widely publicized, current Defense Secretary Jim Mattis testified in 2013 before Congress that the State Department needs to be as fully funded as Congress believes appropriate, because if you don’t fund the State Department fully then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately … The more that we put into the State Department’s diplomacy, hopefully the less we have [read post]
It is perhaps not a surprise that the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation quickly became, for all sides, vindication for the narratives they already believed. [read post]
26 Apr 2018, 8:01 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence. [read post]
26 Apr 2018, 8:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" Judge Mike Lynch told her he "is confident that the new system in Travis County is far better than the old one. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 12:10 pm by Harold O'Grady
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening to the public on April 26, 2018, will become the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, those terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 11:14 am by Steve Lubet
He thwarted a lynch mob and provided the best defense possible for Tom Robinson. [read post]
26 Mar 2018, 2:46 am by admin
It was the height of lynching, Jim Crow laws were passed, and segregation was the religion of choice by the whites. [read post]
9 Mar 2018, 8:47 am by Jon Levitan
Marshall,” a title seldom given to black men in the Jim Crow south, made a lasting impression. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 8:36 am by Michael Markarian
As we begin the second session of the 115th Congress, let’s take a moment to look back at the highs and lows from the first session. [read post]
27 Dec 2017, 5:00 am by Matthew Kahn
In April, Caroline Lynch counseled Congress on how to navigate it’s love-hate relationship with FISA. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 6:06 pm by Alfred Brophy
  (And maybe along the lines of James Chadbourn's Lynching and the Law.) [read post]
3 Nov 2017, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
As public authorities increasingly repudiate lynching, these forces of popular justice were then channeled into the enforcement of the criminal law. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 12:30 pm
But despite those efforts, the petition received widespread media coverage and helped bring the issue of lynching and state violence to the world stage. [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 7:21 am by June Casey
In her rigorous genealogy, Light traces white America’s attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories—from the original “castle laws” of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of “criminal” Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country’s most… [read post]