Rod Graham
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Rod Graham is the Editorial Board's neighborhood sociologist. A professor at Virginia's Old Dominion University, he researches and teaches courses in the areas of cyber-crime and racial inequality. His work can be found at roderickgraham.com. Follow him @roderickgraham.
What’s next? Is the state going to permit tar-and-feathering of convicted criminals? Sew scarlet letters on the shirts of adulterers?
The anatomy of a pull poll.
There’s a right time and a wrong time to self-censor.
We did it before (and we can do it again).
To the police, however, his dignity was their disadvantage.
A cultural and legal machine built to subjugate.
This Supreme Court probably won’t let that happen.
Everyone will not gain today, even if everyone may gain tomorrow.