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Yuri Kochiyama depicted in a Pop Art style panel of images

1921 Marks Anniversaries of Both American Exclusion and Inclusion

On the 100th anniversary of Yuri Kochiyama’s birth and the passage of the Emergency Quota Act, Railton explores inclusion and exclusion in US history.
Muhammad Ali speaking on The Dick Cavett Show.

Muhammad Ali Explains Why He Refused to Fight in Vietnam

“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother… for big powerful America.”
Mark Rudd addresses students as president of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society on May 3, 1968.

Mark Rudd’s Lessons From SDS and the Weather Underground for Today’s Radicals

The famous activist reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.
George Padmore

Black Americans in the Popular Front Against Fascism

The era of anti-fascist struggle was a crucial moment for Black radicals of all stripes.
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The Dark History of America’s First Female Terrorist Group

The women of May 19th bombed the U.S. Capitol and plotted Henry Kissinger’s murder. But they’ve been long forgotten.

A Letter From Viet Nam on the Occasion of the 45th Anniversary of the End of the War

The war and its aftermath, from a Vietnamese perspective.

A Revolution of Values

Martin Luther King Jr. proposed a fix for America’s poisoned soul: ending the Vietnam War.

The Vexed History of Zionism and the Left

A new book asks why the left fell out of love with Zionism, but what it reveals is why liberal Zionists fell out of love with the left.

The Radicalism of Randolph Bourne

Bourne’s affinity with outsiders drove his vision of making North America a united states of communities. His writings have become more relevant than ever.
Malcolm X

Reflections on Malcom X

What we can learn from him and his legacy.
Political cartoon of Grover Cleveland's trade policy.

Grover Cleveland and the Democrats Who Saved Conservatism

They stood against Tammany Hall, the centralized presidency, and profligate spending. Today's Right should give them another look.

“I Lifted Up Mine Eyes to Ghana”

W. E. B. Du Bois died on this day in 1963. Few figures were more influential in shaping the struggle against colonialism.
Workers with a steam plough on a sugar plantation in Puerto Rico.

How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

The expansion of banks like Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and race.
Eldridge Cleaver and Timothy Leary in Algiers in 1970.

When the Black Panthers Came to Algeria

In "Algiers, Third World Capital," Elaine Mokhtefi captures a world of camaraderie, shared ideals, and frequent miscommunication.

North Korea's Unlikely History with Black Radicals

The two groups found common ground in the concept of Juche, or self-reliance.
An engraving of a boat in the water.

"Interior" by Design

Despite the Interior Department’s name, the agency has played a key role in the construction of American foreign policy and territorial expansion.
Ilhan Omar
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What Support for Ilhan Omar Tells Us About the Left

The rising tie between black activism and pro-Palestinian advocacy.

The Forgotten History of Feminismo Americano

Over the first half of the 20th century, the movement galvanized groups throughout the Americas who helped inaugurate what we think of today as global feminism.

A Love Letter to an Extinct Creature: The Liberal Republican

“The Improbable Wendell Willkie” offers a look at how American politics might have been.
Soldiers burning books.

How We Roasted Donald Duck, Disney's Agent of Imperialism

Why a 47-year old anti-colonialist critique by Chilean dissidents may be newly relevant in the Trump era.

Revolution and Repression: A Framework for African American History

Running through all of historian Gerald Horne's books are the twin themes of revolution and repression.
Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists on the Olympic podium in 1968.

Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible

The revolutionaries of 1968 didn't succeed, but the world still needs turning upside down.

Black Radicalism’s Complex Relationship with Japanese Empire

Black intellectuals in the U.S.—from W. E. B. Du Bois to Marcus Garvey—had strong and divergent opinions on Japanese Empire.

Black Atlantis

Why do white people love Black Panther, just as they love Star Wars?
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into news microphones.

Against National Security Citizenship

By connecting liberation at home with an end to U.S. militarism abroad, today's black activists are picking up where MLK left off.
Political Cartoon of Uncle Sam bringing shovels to McKinley who has one foot in the U.S. and the other in Panama, as American flags dot the globe.

The Large Policy

How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.
A graphic featuring Zonia Baber and the Earth.

The Woman Who Transformed How We Teach Geography

By blending education and activism, Zonia Baber made geography a means of uniting—not conquering—the globe.

Restoring King

There is no figure in recent American history whose memory is more distorted than Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into news microphones.

Martin Luther King Jr. Spent the Last Year of His Life Detested by the Liberal Establishment

King was roundly denounced for his stances against the Vietnam War and injustices north of the Mason-Dixon line.
Helicopters landing American troops in Grenada in 1983.
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The Reagan-Era Invasion that Drove North Korea to Develop Nuclear Weapons

How we got to warnings about fire and fury: the 1983 invasion of the small Caribbean nation of Grenada thousands of miles from North Korea.

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