JustSouth Quarterly Winter 2020
Getting in the Game: On Advocacy and Activism
As of the writing of this essay, the Democratic presidential primary is underway and the Louisiana Legislative session will begin on March 9. I considered writing about the necessity of doing our civic duty to vote. While this is true, I decided to go one-step further in how we discuss civic duty.
JustSouth Quarterly Fall 2019
Failing the Moral Test as a Nation
The Trump Administration’s capitulation to a Turkish invasion of Kurdish regions of Syria has begun to displace thousands of Kurdish civilians fleeing war’s destruction and death. They join more than 70 million refugees and internally displaced people fleeing for their lives worldwide.
After the Mississippi ICE Raids: Families Ask Why; Churches Respond
JustSouth Quarterly Summer 2019
Bigots, Bullets and Blood: 400 years of white terrorism from Jamestown to El Paso
Context Matters
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<p>Dr. Mitchell speaks to the history of racism in the U.S.</p>
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Have you ever noticed that during any conversation about racism, someone will inevitably say that “no one alive today was a slave” or that “segregation ended a long time ago—get over it!” It’s a pretty common response to assertions about the impact of racism. When someone says that, all that is being asserted is that history does not matter...and we all know that isn’t true.
Louisiana on Lockdown
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<p>The report, <a href="http://www.solitarywatch.org/louisianaonlockdown"><strong><em>LOUISIANA ON LOCKDOWN</em></strong></a><strong><em>: </em></strong><em>A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons, With Testimony From the People Who Live It, </em>is published by <strong>Solitary Watch, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans. </strong>More than two years in the making, it is based primarily on a survey completed by 709 people in solitary in all nine of Louisiana’s prisons, the largest ever survey of people living in solitary</p>
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The report, LOUISIANA ON LOCKDOWN: A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons, With Testimony From the People Who Live It, is published by Solitary Watch, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans.More than two years in the making, it is based primarily on a survey completed by 709 people in solitary in all nine of Louisiana’s prisons, the largest ever survey of people l