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Byrd's murder was a heinous crime against a man and his family, but it was also something larger. Lynching is the iconic Old South crime, used to punish slave insurrections. Lynch mobs traditionally hanged their victim from a rope tossed over a tree limb. But dragging deaths were not uncommon, first from horses, later from cars and trucks. Lynching was at once a brutal act of vigilante injustice and a larger statement--a warning to blacks to remain subservient...
Biology has usually been only too glad to claim the human female as its slave. The sociobiologists of the '60s and '70s, followed by the evolutionary psychologists of the '90s, promoted what amounts to a prostitution theory of human evolution: Since males have always been free to roam around, following their bliss, the big challenge for the prehistoric female was to land a male hunter and keep him around in a kind of meat-for-sex arrangement. Museum dioramas of the Paleolithic past still tend to feature the guys heading out after the mastodons, spears in hand, while the gals...
...Triantifillou presented a resolution to the Cambridge Women's Heritage Project in honor of Harriet A. Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, conductor on the Underground Railroad and one-time Cambridge resident. Jacobs lived in Cambridge for five years in the 1870s...
...least my age and hip-hop has constituted a staple in your diet as much as fast food, you'll fondly remember Show and AG's "Represent" from their 1992 Runaway Slave: the posse cut that features the recently deceased Big L (R.I.P.), among others, spewing out some of the illest battle rhymes to date. This head sets it off not giving a damn about anything: "Yo on the mic is Big L the brother who gives flames god/known for sending garbage MC's to the graveyard/I pack a gat not a slingshot/step to this you get an ass-whipping...
...treat. Poulis' rich baritone is always recognizable for its professional quality, and although we know that he is having fun playing the vain Maximillian, a certain seriousness also runs through his performance. However, one of Poulis' best scenes is when he is taken to the New World as a slave, dressed in drag and nearly taken as a concubine by the Governor...