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We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong

The murals have been denounced as demeaning, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.

The Declaration Heard Around the World

The declaration's words and sentiments have inspired nations and movements around the world.

Gump Talk

25 years later, what does Gump mean?

Geopolitics for the Left

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."
Martin Luther King Sr., Rosalynn Carter, Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Jimmy Carter, and 2 unidentified men holding hands at a service at Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Andrew Young, Marc Lamont Hill, and Palestine

How the resignation of a Carter era ambassador still echoes today.
Black Cross Nurses parade through Harlem in 1922.

And the Women Shall Lead Us

A new book shows how women's leadership in black nationalist movements has always been hidden in plain sight.

Infiltrating the Left

The FBI has long tried to destroy socialist organizations, but its actions aren't limited to surveillance.
Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The Afro-Pessimist Temptation

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.

A Most Violent Year

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.
James Comey, a tall white man in a suit, receiving a certificate in front of wall with a "Birmingham Civil Rights Institute" sign and a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Under Comey's Leadership, the FBI Targeted Black Activists and Muslim Communities

This is the man who has criticized the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King as "shameful."
James Baldwin walking in Harlem, 1963.

Jimmy Is Everywhere

James Campbell opens the FBI file on James Baldwin.
Still from Black Panther film.

'Black Panther' and the Invention of 'Africa'

The film's hero and antagonist represent dueling responses to five centuries of African exploitation at the hands of the West.

The Most Dangerous Gay Man in America Fought Violence With Violence

Four decades ago, Raymond Broshears armed his disciples to keep LGBT people safe from violent homophobes.

A Homecoming for Murray Kempton

Looking at the reporter’s life through five houses in Baltimore.

The 1977 Disability Rights Protest That Broke Records and Changed Laws

The 504 Sit-In was the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in United States history.
Cartoon panel of a man with a typewriter and a Department of Justice logo on the wall

They’ve Always Been Watching Us

From COINTELPRO to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.

The Black Politics of Eugenics

For much of the twentieth century, African Americans embraced eugenics as a means of racial improvement.

The History and Significance of Kente Cloth in the Black Diaspora

Kente serves as more than a pop of color at college graduations.
The inmates during a negotiating session on September 10, 1971. An uprising born of panic and confusion triggered a cascade of paranoia that extended to the Nixon White House.

Learning from the Slaughter in Attica

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.

A Black Power Method

A Black Power method moves to destabilize or interrogate dominant white perspectives in mainstream media outlets, government records, and in the very definition of what constitutes a credible source.

Race and the American Creed

Recovering black radicalism.

A Historian’s Revealing Research on Race and Gun Laws

The notion that gun control has racist origins is popular in gun rights circles. Here's what's wrong with the claim.

The Black Power Movement

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
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How a Standoff with the Black Panthers Fueled the Rise of SWAT

SWAT teams were created in the 1960s to combat violent events. Since then, the specialized teams have morphed into something very different.
Map of Omaha.

A History of Redlining in Omaha

Redlining in Omaha began in the 1920s. Although outlawed in the 1960s, its effects are still present in the city's demographics.

Ella Taught Me: Shattering the Myth of the Leaderless Movement

It’s in vogue to call the new movement against police violence "leaderless." But as Ella Baker taught us, it's more correct to say that it has many leaders.
Civil War rifles mounted on wall
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Straight Shot: Guns in America

On who has had access to guns in the U.S., and what those guns have meant to the people who have owned them.
Stokely Carmichael talking to members of the press at the House Rules Committee (1966).

Watching the Watchers

Confessions of an FBI special agent.
Kwame Ture at at a 1966 Mississippi Press Conference. Public Domain.
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Stokely Carmichael Interview

A field secretary of SNCC discusses the importance of maintaining political power inside communities at the county level.

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