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Made for Misfits: The Colorful History of the Black Leather Jacket

“Leather-laden outlaws struck fear into the hearts of civilians and cops alike, as they tore through towns with gleeful irreverence.”
by Lydia Sviatoslavsky via Collectors Weekly on October 2, 2019

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.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via The Nation on September 10, 2019

The Declaration Heard Around the World

The declaration's words and sentiments have inspired nations and movements around the world.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on July 4, 2019

Gump Talk

25 years later, what does Gump mean?
via Contingent on July 1, 2019

Geopolitics for the Left

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."
by Ted Fertik via n+1 on March 11, 2019
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.
by Michael R. Fischbach via Stanford University Press on December 20, 2018
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.
by Stephen G. Hall via Public Books on December 3, 2018

Infiltrating the Left

The FBI has long tried to destroy socialist organizations, but its actions aren't limited to surveillance.
by Aaron J. Leonard, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on August 19, 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The Afro-Pessimist Temptation

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.
by Darryl Pinckney via New York Review of Books on May 23, 2018

A Most Violent Year

The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.
by Alan Wolfe via The New Republic on May 18, 2018
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."
by Jeanne Theoharis via The Intercept on April 24, 2018
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.
by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on February 18, 2018

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.
by Eric Markowitz via Newsweek on January 25, 2018

A Homecoming for Murray Kempton

Looking at the reporter’s life through five houses in Baltimore.
by Andrew Holter via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 13, 2017

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.
by Brittany Shoot via Atlas Obscura on November 9, 2017
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.
by Andy Warner, Jess Parker via The Nib on July 10, 2017

The Black Politics of Eugenics

For much of the twentieth century, African Americans embraced eugenics as a means of racial improvement.
by Ayah Nuriddin via Nursing Clio on June 1, 2017

The History and Significance of Kente Cloth in the Black Diaspora

Kente serves as more than a pop of color at college graduations.
by James Padilioni via Black Perspectives on May 22, 2017
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.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on August 22, 2016
A book about black power lies next to a pair of running shoes, 1969.

A Black Power Method

Interrogating dominant white perspectives in mainstream media outlets, government records, and in the very definition of what constitutes a credible source.
by N. D. B. Connolly via Public Books on June 15, 2016

Race and the American Creed

Recovering black radicalism.
by Aziz Rana via n+1 on December 7, 2015

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.
by Saul Cornell, Mike Spies via The Trace on November 24, 2015

The Black Power Movement

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Lakisha Odlum via Digital Public Library of America on October 14, 2015
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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.
via Retro Report on August 5, 2015
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.
by Adam F. C. Fletcher via North Omaha History on August 2, 2015

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.
by Barbara Ransby via Colorlines on June 12, 2015
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.
via BackStory on January 25, 2013
Stokely Carmichael talking to members of the press at the House Rules Committee (1966).

Watching the Watchers

Confessions of an FBI special agent.
by Robert Wall via New York Review of Books on January 27, 1972
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.
via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on April 21, 1966

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