A Black woman claimed self-defense after killing her jailer. Her 1975 high-profile trial shook the American South, and a recent documentary highlights eternal questions about juries and public ...
Reasonable Doubt: Joan Little’s trial for the murder of a prison guard captured national attention before a jury acquitted her. Here, civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory, left, with Little ...
John Podesta, President Clinton’s former chief of staff, launched the Center for American Progress in 2003 to serve as a liberal/progressive counterweight to the well-funded right wing think tanks in ...