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self-defense
November 20, 2021
Aaron Miguel Cantú
Kyle Rittenhouse, Black Lives Matter, and the Idea of Self-Defense
As Kyle Rittenhouse walks free, Black people sit in prison for resisting the deadly conditions of their lives.
November 14, 2017
Charlotte Shane
A Century of Women Fighting Back
A new book traces the nineteenth-century beginnings of women's self-defense training.
August 20, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Ferguson Protesters Want the Grand Jury to Deliver "Justice." Here Are Two Reasons They Might Not Get It.

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