Scholars Clarence Lang and Ashley Howard explain the historical and national context in which the recent protests against the killing of an unarmed African-American teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, have unfolded Story Transcript JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jaisal Noor in Baltimore. Over the Labor Day weekend in Ferguson, Missouri, […]
Author Archives: Ashley Howard
Ashley Howard is an assistant professor of African American History at Loyola University New Orleans. Her research interests include the black Midwestern experience and the global history of racial violence. Her forthcoming book Prairie Fires analyzes the 1960s urban rebellions in the Midwest, grounded in the way race, class, gender, and region played critical and overlapping roles in defining resistance to racialized oppression.
