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Writing Without Fear
The early black abolitionist David Walker thought he might be killed for his words against slavery, but he wrote them anyway
 • Victor Luckerson
Resistance Isn’t Futile
What I learned researching a man who was arrested for owning a book
 • Victor Luckerson
Freedom by Violent Means: Part II
The killing of a white slavecatcher by a group of armed black people prompted a vicious response from the federal government
 • Victor Luckerson
Freedom by Violent Means: Part I
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 sparked a wave of violent resistance, leading to a killing in Christiana, Pennsylvania
 • Victor Luckerson
Truthtelling in a Time of Lies
William Still, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, gave fugitive slaves the space to tell their own authentic stories
 • Victor Luckerson
The First Black Voters
Black men could vote in many U.S. states after the American Revolution, but they soon battled a wave of disenfranchisement laws as the nation turned its…
 • Victor Luckerson
The Story of Black Wall Street: Trust in the Law
The legal battles over who should pay for the destruction of Greenwood, criminally and financially, began before the smoke had cleared
 • Victor Luckerson
The Story of Black Wall Street #017: Reparations Then, Reparations Now
This year I've been reporting on a reparations settlement achieved decades ago in Florida at the same time a new quest for economic justice was…
 • Victor Luckerson
The Story of Black Wall Street #012: Black Patriots
What it means to love America as a black person in the days between Juneteenth and the Fourth of July
 • Victor Luckerson
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