Gerald Horne, a noted historian, conversed with IC Professor Michael Trotti about his recent book, The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South. Horne's KPFK radio show is called "Freedom Now", and the interview aired on the 4 January 2024 edition (just over 37 minutes into the program). Horne asks about the genesis of the project as well as how condemned African American men frustrated the state's plans for executions by turning public hangings into something like religious revivals, focused less on the punishment of the moment and more on a sinner repenting and expecting to go to heaven. These moments confronted white supremacy publicly in an era when that rarely occurred.
Prof. Trotti also published a short piece on rural and small town America in "The Edge" during last year's run up to the election: "An Anticolonial Fight in the Heartland?: No, But..."