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June 2nd, 2022 - 1:10 pm § in Democrats, Politics, Racism

Is it okay for a black candidate to wear a noose in a campaign ad?

This campaign ad by Charles Booker, a Democrat who’s running for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, is as hard-hitting as it’s possible to get. Some may question its appropriateness, but they should remember who he’s running against. Booker’s claim that his opponent, Sen. Rand Paul, &#[...]

February 15th, 2015 - 5:55 pm § in Uncategorized

This man wants to build memorials to America’s lynching victims

Among states, Louisiana was the epicenter of America’s dark era of lynchings; but more people were lynched in Phillips County, Arkansas, than in any other American county. The Deep South’s lynching body count is mapped here. Lynchings were employed as a form of social control to keep bla[...]