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How Brown Came North and Failed
Half a century ago the civil rights movement’s effort to carry the campaign for school desegregation from the South to the urban North ended in failure.
by
Linda Greenhouse
via
New York Review of Books
on
May 8, 2025
RFK’s Ideas About “Wellness Farms” for Young People Are Eugenic and Unconstitutional
RFK’s call for “wellness farms” revives a grim legacy of forced labor, racial injustice, and eugenics disguised as mental health reform.
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Kylie Smith
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Nursing Clio
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May 8, 2025
The World Darryl Gates Made: Race, Policing, and the Birth of SWAT
The very features that made the LAPD appear more professional also expanded its reach and capacity for violence.
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Aaron Stagoff-Belfort
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The Metropole
on
May 7, 2025
From Chinese Exclusion to Pro-Palestinian Activism: The History of Politically Motivated Deportation
Removal orders targeting student activists echo America’s long past of jailing and expelling immigrants because of their race, or what they say or believe.
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Rick Baldoz
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The Conversation
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April 30, 2025
Vance’s Junk History
When Donald Trump and his followers go in search of historical forerunners to justify their regime, they turn with striking regularity to the presidency.
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Sean Wilentz
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New York Review of Books
on
April 25, 2025
Ella Jenkins and Sonic Civil Rights Pedagogy
She translated Black freedom movements' ideals into forms that children could enjoy and grasp, nurturing their political consciousness through music-making.
by
Gayle F. Wald
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Black Perspectives
on
April 25, 2025
A Chorus of Defiance
Fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end, lessons from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance.
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David Cortright
via
Boston Review
on
April 24, 2025
The Supreme Court Could Take Another Shot at Voting Rights
If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era jurisprudence.
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Matt Ford
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The New Republic
on
April 22, 2025
Oliver Stone Goes to Washington
Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone says we’re closer than ever to finally piecing together the mystery of November 22, 1963.
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Oliver Stone
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Ed Rampell
via
Jacobin
on
April 18, 2025
Secret Recordings Show President Roosevelt Debating Military Desegregation with Civil Rights Leaders
More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President FDR heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the era for the desegregation of the military.
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Richard Sisk
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Millitary.com
on
April 15, 2025
What Is the Alien Enemies Act?
Trump is relying on a 1798 law with a bad history.
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William Hogeland
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Hogeland's Bad History
on
April 14, 2025
So, How Much of Korematsu Did the Supreme Court “Overrule,” Exactly?
Chief Justice John Roberts called it “obvious” that the infamous decision has “no place in law under the Constitution.” Recent events suggest otherwise.
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Madiba K. Dennie
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Balls And Strikes
on
April 14, 2025
What the Birth of the Sanctuary Movement Teaches Us Today
The birth of the sanctuary movement some 45 years ago can teach us a lot about how to respond to today’s attacks on immigrants.
by
Kyle Paoletta
via
The Nation
on
April 10, 2025
The True Story of an Indiana Teen Barred From School Over His AIDS Diagnosis
Ryan White changed perceptions of the disease in the United States.
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Paul M. Renfro
via
Teen Vogue
on
April 8, 2025
Why Are Trans People Such an Easy Political Target? The Answer Involves a Surprising Culprit.
Making a whole group of people this vulnerable does not just happen overnight.
by
Zein Murib
via
Slate
on
April 7, 2025
‘Vietdamned’
Can a new book rescue Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre’s activism from irrelevance?
by
Yuan Yi Zhu
via
History Today
on
April 4, 2025
What Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution?
How a dispute with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor made the southern colonies’ embrace the radical cause.
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Andrew Lawler
via
Smithsonian
on
April 4, 2025
Legacies of Japanese American Incarceration
Brandon Shimoda’s book about the memorialization of Japanese internment camps also speaks to the brutal system of migrant detention that continues to this day.
by
Francisco Cantú
via
New York Review of Books
on
April 3, 2025
Recovering the Forgotten Past of Black Legal Lives
Dylan C. Penningroth challenges nearly every aspect of our traditional understanding of civil rights history.
by
Ajay K. Mehrotra
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
April 3, 2025
Basic Stuff About Reality
On David Roediger’s “An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education.”
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
March 28, 2025
George W. Bush Lives on in Donald Trump’s Migrant Policies
The “war on terror” led to a sweeping curtailment of immigrants’ rights that swept up green card holders as well as citizens.
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Branko Marcetic
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Jacobin
on
March 27, 2025
Before Mahmoud Khalil, There Was Harry Bridges
The U.S. government repeatedly tried to deport the midcentury labor leader over his alleged ties to the Communist Party.
by
Clay Risen
via
The Bulwark
on
March 24, 2025
Alien Enemies, Alien Friends, and the Concept of “Allegiance”
With controversy raging over the Alien Enemies Act, how should we understand the concept it invoked?
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Robert Natelson
via
Law & Liberty
on
March 24, 2025
Trump's Attack on Lawyers and Law Firms Takes a Page Out of the Southern 1950s Playbook
American authoritarians fear the uniquely American power of litigation.
by
Sherrilyn Ifill
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Sherrilyn's Newsletter
on
March 24, 2025
The Dark, McCarthyist History of Deporting Activists
Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents.
by
Michelle Chen
via
The Progressive
on
March 21, 2025
A Way to Honor the Teach-in Movement at 60
It’s time for another national teach-in movement.
by
Robert Cohen
via
Inside Higher Ed
on
March 21, 2025
Trump’s Deportations Are a Throwback to Red Scare Politics
The long tradition of the US government using border policy as a tool for political control, stretching back to Red Scare efforts to suppress left-wing dissent.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
Jacobin
on
March 20, 2025
Peaceable Revolutions
Linda Gordon argues that social movements are vital partnerships that, by challenging the status quo, are indispensable to the health of the nation.
by
Brenda Wineapple
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 20, 2025
Home Is Where the Unpaid Labor Is
A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.
by
Hannah Rosefield
via
The New Republic
on
March 19, 2025
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Whose Side Are College Administrators On?
There’s a long history of politicians targeting student protesters — and of campus leaders abetting those efforts.
by
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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HNN
on
March 19, 2025
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