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Protesters gather outside the White House, holding picket signs advocating for home rule for Washington DC.

How the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act Enabled the Nation’s Capital to Govern Itself—With Oversight

Far from being a new debate, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been around as long as the District of Columbia itself.

by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian Magazine on August 14, 2025

James Baldwin and Lucien Happersberger in bed.

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

Once dismissed as passé, since recast as a secular saint, Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than readers in either camp recognize.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on August 11, 2025

The Strange and Wonderful Subcultures of 1960s New York

From slum clearance to beatnik protests, how Greenwich Village became a battleground over race, art, and redevelopment.

by J. Hoberman via Jacobin on July 19, 2025

African American workers march past a line of National Guards troops with bayonets fixed.

The National Guard’s History of Violent Labor Repression

Donald Trump recently deployed California’s National Guard to repress protests in LA. The National Guard has a long history of breaking up protests and strikes.

by Dana Frank via Jacobin on June 30, 2025

US National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN"

The Classical Liberal Foundation of Civil Rights

The progress we have seen toward civil rights for all Americans is inseparable from the history of classical liberalism.

by David Lewis Schaefer via Law & Liberty on June 24, 2025

Martin Luther King Jr stands behind a podium.

5 Lessons From the Real Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed.

by Jeanne Theoharis via The Nation on June 19, 2025

William F. Buckley during a press interview in Buenos Aires, Argentina, circa 1970s. (Alamy)

Steering Right

Sam Tanenhaus’s biography of William F. Buckley has certain limitations, but it captures the character of conservatism’s founding father.

by John O. McGinnis via Law & Liberty on June 19, 2025

Ella Jenkins at a School Assembly Service performance, c. 1962.

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 via Black Perspectives on April 25, 2025

Coretta Scott King sitting in front of a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.

America Has Gotten Coretta Scott King Wrong

Her ghostwritten autobiography diminishes her, and I found out why.

by Jeanne Theoharis via The Atlantic on April 7, 2025

Senator Joseph McCarthy speaking into microphones.

Newly Declassified Documents Reveal the Untold Stories of the Red Scare

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy upended the nation.

by Sara Georgini, Clay Risen via Smithsonian Magazine on April 1, 2025

Civil rights lawyers including Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker Motley.

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 via Sherrilyn's Newsletter on March 24, 2025

A drawing of a variety of social movements protesting.

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

A crowd of Black children walking into school.

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education

On the ongoing battle to desegregate schools across America throughout the 1960s.

by Noliwe Rooks via Literary Hub on March 19, 2025

Men work in an FBI office.

FBI and CIA Conducted Illegal Surveillance of 1960s Student Activists in the South

Newly declassified records reveal how paranoia about subversion in conservative states resulted in major constitutional violations.

by Jeremy Kuzmarov via CovertAction Magazine on March 13, 2025

African American boy watches a parade of white people from a distance.

The Great Resegregation

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil rights movement.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on February 22, 2025

Trump and Reagan depicted as two halves of the same face.

The Dark Legacy of Reaganism

Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on February 19, 2025

Cha Cha Jiménez with his arms crossed and a cigarette in his mouth, crossing his arms and looking at the camera.

From Street Gang to Revolutionaries

José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez and the Young Lords laid the groundwork for radical racial justice movements.

by Felipe Hinojosa via Religion Dispatches on February 4, 2025

Protest and Politics

Two new biographies enhance our knowledge of John Lewis, the late congressman and civil rights hero.

by Jason Sokol via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on January 15, 2025

Black family posing with a car.

Cars for Freedom: SNCC and the Sojourner Motor Fleet

The fleet provided activists with reliable transportation in hostile and often dangerous environments.

by Travis White via Black Perspectives on January 13, 2025

A Black man in a Santa costume high-fiving a child.

A Fight for Holiday Equality: How Black Santas Shaped US Civil Rights

In 1969, Otis Moss Jr led a push to ensure diversity among Santa Clauses. But the fight, he says, continues to this day.

by Allison Griner via Al Jazeera on December 24, 2024

A mural depicting John Brown amid Bleeding Kansas.

John Brown, Christian Nationalist

To understand discourse around “Christian nationalism,” look no further than the abolitionist hailed by many on the left.

by Shiv Parihar via Providence on December 13, 2024

A member of the Michigan National Guard stands at the ready as firemen battle a blaze in Detroit in July 1967.

White and Black Activists Worked Strategically in Parallel in Detroit 50 Years Ago for Civil Rights

Since George Floyd’s murder, some white allies seek ways to fight racial inequality. Detroit’s 1960s "racially parallel organizing" offers insights.

by Say Burgin via The Conversation on December 5, 2024

Annie Mae Edwards and her children—Helen, Barbara, Johnnie Ruth, and Gene, with an unidentified woman.

A Forgotten Eyewitness to Civil-Rights-Era Mississippi

As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph many subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.

by Paige Williams via The New Yorker on November 3, 2024

"Stayed on Freedom" book cover

A History of Black Power We Need and Deserve

A history that is as tactical as it is analytical, as global as it is local, and as based in love as it is in politics.

by Say Burgin via Monthly Review on November 1, 2024

George Floyd protest

Reflections of the 60th Anniversary of Urban Uprisings in America

The media narrative used to discredit urban rebellions as violent betrayals of the civil rights movement has been attached to protests ever since.

by Heather Ann Thompson via Black Perspectives on October 17, 2024

A postcard showing five women in colorful dresses playing and singing in Ybor City

Race & Gender in the Latinx South

Two new books make the case that “when and where you are Latino matters.”

by Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez via Southern Spaces on September 10, 2024

Teenagers marching in civil rights rally holding large sign reading "Black Power."

Black Church Leaders Brought Religion to Politics in the ‘60s

But unlike today's white Christian nationalism, Black church leaders called for healing internal divisions through engagement.

by Tobin Miller Shearer via The Conversation on September 6, 2024

A few people sitting down and reading the bible.

Public Schools, Religion, and Race

It was no coincidence that public school secularization and desegregation were happening, and failing, simultaneously.

by Leslie Beth Ribovich via The Revealer on September 5, 2024

Ernest Calloway with the rank-and-file organizing committee of the International Shoe Company, outside the Cherokee Plant.

Ernest Calloway Fused Civil Rights and Class Struggle

Through his work in both the Teamsters and the NAACP, Ernest Calloway embodied the potential of a united labor and civil rights movement.

by Paul Prescod via Jacobin on September 4, 2024

Fannie Lou Hamer speaks at the Democratic National Convention in 1964.

The Civil-Rights Era’s Great Unanswered Question

Is this America?

by Julian E. Zelizer via The Atlantic on August 17, 2024

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