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How Do You Protest in a Pandemic?

The challenges of creating a social movement while social distancing

May 12, 2020 • by Jane Desmond

On Thursday, April 15, the traditional day for paying federal taxes, several thousand cars rolled to a stop on the streets in Lansing, Michigan. They surrounded the State Capitol, commencing “Operation Gridlock” to protest Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s extension of the state’s “stay-at-home” order. Blaring horns, waving flags, and sprouting signs ...

Exiles on 12th Street

The Fire This Time

Exiles on 12th Street, Episode Two

April 3, 2019 • by Claire Potter

Violence against African American people creates pain and outrage, but policy makers offer us few solutions. In this episode, we ask: how can the fight for racial justice be accelerated, even as racism remains as persistent today as it was before the modern Civil Rights movement? In the spirit of ...

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A12 Episode 6

The Aftermath

August 30, 2018 • by Nicole Hemmer

A12 explores the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last year, the history behind the conflict, and how the city and its people have dealt with the aftermath. In this episode, Niki investigates "How Charlottesville has dealt with the trauma of August 11 and 12".

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A12 Episode 5

Who Watches the Watchers?

August 29, 2018 • by Nicole Hemmer

In this episode, Niki investigates "Why law enforcement and the legal system failed to prevent the violence on August 11 and 12".

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A12 Episode 4

The Alt-Right Rises

August 27, 2018 • by Nicole Hemmer

In this episode, Niki investigates "How the alt-right fits into the history of American white supremacy, and why they chose Charlottesville as the place to make their stand".

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A12 Episode 3

The Statue at the Center of the World

August 24, 2018 • by Nicole Hemmer

In this episode, Niki investigates "Why Charlottesville's Confederate statues opened up a battle over history and memory".

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A12 Episode 2

The City Behind the Hashtag

August 23, 2018 • by Nicole Hemmer

In this episode, Niki investigates "How Charlottesville tells its history — and what it misses".

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A12 Episode 1

The Summer of Hate

August 22, 2018 • by Nicole Hemmer

In this episode, Niki investigates "How the people of Charlottesville responded to months of white supremacist organizing and violence in the city".

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Institutionalizing Children, Referees, and Charlottesville

Past Present Episode 142

August 7, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia debate the history of the institutionalization of children, the thankless job of refereeing youth sports, and the legacy of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, one year after the Unite the Right rally. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: ...

Institutionalizing Children, Referees, and Charlottesville

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The Charlottesville Syllabus

Confronting the history and present of white supremacy in a college town

May 2, 2018 • by The Graduate Student Coalition for Liberation

12 AUGUST 2017 The Charlottesville Syllabus is a resource created by the Graduate Student Coalition for Liberation to be used to educate readers about the long history of white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia. While the resources selected and summaries written are by UVA graduate students, the Syllabus is not sanctioned by ...

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Thinking After C’ville

A meditation on more of the same

January 12, 2018 • by Marcus Toure B. McCullough

Reverend Marcus Toure B. McCullough is a pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a graduate Morehouse College, and has earned masters degrees in divinity and sacred theology from Harvard Divinity School and Boston University School of Theology.

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Martin Luther King’s “False God of Nationalism”

Today’s animus against migrants is a legacy of Jim Crow

January 9, 2018 • by Vaughn A. Booker

A version of this essay was originally published on January 9 2018. Speaking on the first black-owned radio station in the US in 1953, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached on “The False God of Nationalism.” In the sermon, preached at Ebenezer Baptist Church and broadcast on Atlanta-based WERD radio ...