White prosecutors are standing in front of overwhelmingly white juries comparing Black defendants facing the death penalty to animals. The racism in North Carolina’s application of the death penalty is so clear it is blinding, says the ACLU.
Emory historian Crystal Sanders untangles the ongoing repercussions of Black students’ efforts to secure graduate education in the Jim Crow era, specifically looking at those who attended elite institutions such as Harvard.
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BBQ spots are not hard to find when crossing into the South, and that food culture has slowly yet surely been brought through generations further north. One spot, to some people’s surprise, in Watertown, Wisconsin is the prime example of authentic Southern food with a nod to Chicago roots as well.