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Roundabout at the George Floyd memorial, at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue.

George Floyd and a Community of Care

At E. 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, a self-organizing network explores what it means to construct and maintain a public memorial.
by G. E. Patterson via Places Journal on March 1, 2021
Artistic photo of Malcolm X

Malcolm’s Ministry

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.
by Brandon M. Terry via New York Review of Books on February 4, 2021
Three African American protest leaders address a crowd.

True Stories About the Great Fire

A movement’s early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped.
by Dan Adler, Anthony Breznican, Kenzie Bryant, Michael Calderone, Arimeta Diop, Caleb Ecarma, Joe Hagan, Chris Smith, Claire Landsbaum, Abigail Tracy, Erin Vanderhoof via The Hive on August 24, 2020
Protester on his knees holding a sign faces police.
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Los Angeles Showed in 1992 How Not To Respond To Today’s Uprisings

The lessons of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising and its aftermath still resonate.
by V. N. Trinh via Made By History on May 31, 2020

I Survived Prison During The AIDS Epidemic. Here’s What It Taught Me About Coronavirus

COVID-19 isn’t an automatic death sentence, but the fear, vilification and isolation are the same.
by Richard Rivera via The Marshall Project on May 14, 2020
Illustration of a mob of white men burning down a building.

What a White-Supremacist Coup Looks Like

In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, the victory of racial prejudice over democratic principle and the rule of law was unnervingly complete.
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker on April 20, 2020
Panorama of the Iroquois Theater after the fire, 1903. Photograph by Henry Albert Ericson.

Fire!

A brief history of theater fires in New York City—and the regulations that helped people escape them.
by Olivia Rutigliano via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 7, 2019
Black men confront armed whites in a Chicago street.

‘Ready To Explode’

How a black teen’s drifting raft triggered a deadly week of riots 100 years ago in Chicago.
by William Lee via Chicago Tribune on July 21, 2019

How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat

Behind the scenes, corporate lobbying laid the groundwork for the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of so-called eco-terrorists.
by Alleen Brown via The Intercept on March 23, 2019

Black Wall Street: The African American Haven That Burned and Then Rose From the Ashes

The story of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood district isn’t well known, but it has never been told in a manner worthy of its importance.
by Victor Luckerson via The Ringer on June 28, 2018
Thomas Jefferson's library at the Library of Congress.

Mr. Jefferson’s Books & Mr. Madison’s War

The burning of Washington presented an opportunity for Jefferson’s books to educate the nation by becoming a national library.
by Rebecca Brenner Graham via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on May 15, 2018
A man standing in the rubble that was his home before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The front of the postcard contains a printed caption stating, "All That Was Left of His Home After the Tulsa Race Riot, 6-1-1921."

Tulsa, 1921

On the 100th anniversary of the riot in that city, we commemorate the report written for this magazine by a remarkable journalist.
by Walter Francis White, Russell Cobb via The Nation on June 15, 1921

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