Entries tagged with “Guy LeGrande”
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Oct 07, 2020
Groundbreaking ‘Racist Roots’ Project Exposes Racism Endemic in North Carolina’s Death Penalty
North Carolina’s death penalty is a weapon of social control rooted in a racist past. That is the message of a groundbreaking new collaborative project, Racist Roots: Origins of North Carolina’s Death Penalty, by the Durham-based defense organization Center for Death Penalty Litigation (CDPL). Through essays and academic articles containing in-depth analysis, photographs, archival news-clippings, poetry, and stirring personal narratives, the CDPL staff and a legion of notable contributors…