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Rebekah Barber

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Durham
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Covers:  Southern history, democracy, economic inequality

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Rebekah Barber’s Biography

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Rebekah graduated from North Carolina Central University in 2016 with degrees in English and history. After college, she worked as a journalist and researcher at the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, North Carolina. Her research largely focuses on racial justice, democracy, and Southern history. This research experience, as well as Rebekah’s work with groups like the North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign, motivated her to pursue a degree in public policy. She is currently pursuing a Mas…

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Rebekah Barber

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Rebekah is a research associate at the Institute for Southern Studies and writer for Facing South. Her resear…

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Rebekah Barber

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Rebekah is a research associate at the Institute for Southern Studies and writer for Facing South. Her resear…

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Why Repression in the US South and Global South are Interconnected: An Interview with Azadeh Shahshahani

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By Rebekah Barber
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Image Credit: Masantocreative For Unsplash+ Azadeh Shahshahani is the legal and advocacy director for Project South. A human rights attorney based in Atlanta, she previously served as president of the National Lawyers Guild and director of the National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project for the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.
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Why We Should Not Abandon the South

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By Rebekah Barber
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Photo by Mike Setchell on Unsplash As a Black woman, I know that people like me were not being considered when fifty-six White men representing the Second Continental Congress gathered in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence.
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Despite Barriers, Black-Owned Bookstores Continue Their Legacy of Educating Communities

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By Rebekah Barber
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Image Credit: Drazen Zigic on iStock Maati Jone Primm did not envision herself as a bookstore owner, even though Marshall’s Music and Bookstore, the oldest operating Black-owned bookstore in the United States, has been in her family for decades. The bookstore, originally founded in 1938, was purchased by Primm’s grandmother, a college-educated woman who was the first in her family to be born outside of slavery.
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