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There’s a Black Man Running Down My Street

When nice white neighbors criminalize a man for being Black and kill him it’s not just murder—it’s a lynching.

December 1, 2021 • by Mark Allan Williams

When is a murder not a murder? When it’s a lynching. On November 24, 2021—the day before Thanksgiving—many Americans let out a collective breath of relief. In Brunswick, Georgia, a jury convicted Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan of murder for hunting down and killing Ahmaud Arbery, an ...

Can I Get a Witness?

Until recently, Black testimony about racism had to be validated by whites. That’s changing

November 19, 2020 • by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

“I opened my phone and I started recording because I knew if I didn’t, no one would believe me.” So said Darnella Frazier, the 17-year old Minneapolis resident who took the footage of George Floyd’s killing that circulated around the world last summer. Frazier’s instinct to press record, something other witnesses ...

Khizr & Ghazala Khan, Roger Ailes, and Juicing

Past Present Episode 46

August 10, 2016 • by Neil J. Young, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Nicole Hemmer

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Khizr and Ghazala Khan’s appearance at the Democratic National Convention was only one among many speeches at both political conventions by parents who had lost their children. Neil argued that these speeches were effective because people felt sympathetic towards ...