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Click here for reuse options! Who will stand between vulnerable communities and mob justice? In the first few days after Donald Trump’s election, the Southern Poverty Law Center issued a report showing a shocking rise in what it called “bias-related...

With Blood at the Root, National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips has laid bare the history of an American tragedy, over a century old, that speaks volumes to the wounds and prejudices that still divide communities across the nation.  Delving into...

The Dark Secret of Jim Crow and the Racist Roots of Gun Control By Dave Kopel America's 1st Freedom, March 2011. More articles by Kopel on civil rights and gun control are available here. Jim Crow is alive and well. School children today are taught...

I think we’ve often forgotten the economic issues that were really central to the march, in hindsight. That’s something that we need to remember as we remember this march, that it really was—and I think had a very profound effect on...

"All over the county, beneath the ground on which black churches stood, the soil is rich with ashes." In Blood at the Root (W.W. Norton and Company, 2016), award-winning poet and author Patrick Phillips returns to the rural community of Forsyth County...