William Horne, Co-Founder and Editor of The Activist History Review, is an Arthur J. Ennis Postdoctoral Fellow at Villanova University who writes about the relationship of race to labor, freedom, disability, and capitalism in post-Civil War Louisiana. He is a former high school teacher, barista, and warehouse worker and is an avid home gardener. He holds a PhD in History from The George Washington University and can be followed on Twitter at @wihorne.
The promise of a better future through education and agitation is a calling that no pandemic, however serious, could interrupt. We must and will persevere.
These scientific servants of elite interests created a vision of the migrant body that perfectly matched the ideal working body of slavery that must be kept at labor to avoid illness.
Charles’ art and activism have been a fixture in the city for the last decade, so when I learned Charles would be running for mayor, I knew I wanted to interview him.