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Los Angeles Could Have Rebuilt a Better City After the Rodney King Violence. Here's Why It Failed.
Leading gangs in Los Angeles were making peace as the city burned. How the city failed them rewrites our understanding of that moment.
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Elizabeth Hinton
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TIME
on
May 18, 2021
We Were Warned About a Divided America 50 Years Ago. We Ignored the Signs
As in the 1960s, the nation today stands at a turning point.
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Elizabeth Hinton
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Washington Post
on
March 16, 2021
The Unsettling Message of ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
The new crime thriller about a magnetic leader of the Black Panther Party is a sharp criticism of the FBI’s surveillance of social movements past and present.
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Elizabeth Hinton
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The Atlantic
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February 13, 2021
The Minneapolis Uprising in Context
A proper understanding of urban rebellion depends on our ability to interpret it not as a wave of criminality, but as political violence.
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Elizabeth Hinton
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Boston Review
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May 29, 2020
How the ‘Central Park Five’ Changed the History of American Law
Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why more children had to stand trial as adults than at any other time before this 1989 case.
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Elizabeth Hinton
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The Atlantic
on
June 2, 2019
Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0
An updated prison syllabus in response to the national prison strike of 2018.
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Dan Berger
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Garrett Felber
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Elizabeth Hinton
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Anyabwile Love
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Kali Nicole Gross
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Black Perspectives
on
September 8, 2018
Booked: The Origins of the Carceral State
Elizabeth Hinton discusses how twentieth-century policymakers anticipated the explosion of the prison population.
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Elizabeth Hinton
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Timothy Shenk
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Dissent
on
August 30, 2016
From "War on Crime" to War on the Black Community
The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.
by
Elizabeth Hinton
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Boston Review
on
June 21, 2016
