African American prisoners Archives

African American prisoners

The Lightning Farm

The death penalty under Trump and the execution of Dustin Higgs

Garden-Variety Racism

From the dissenting opinion of the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, issued in July in response to the court’s decision to decline to review the case of Fair…

Revenge Tragedy

by Austin Reed,

From The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict, a memoir by Austin Reed, published this month by Random House. Likely completed in 1858, the manuscript was discovered at…