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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.
by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on May 19, 2021
People on the street and burning car amidst debris

Los Angeles Could Have Rebuilt a Better City After the Rodney King Violence. Here's Why It Failed.

Leading gangs in Los Angeles were making peace as the city burned. How the city failed them rewrites our understanding of that moment.
by Elizabeth Hinton via TIME on May 18, 2021

‘One Oppressive Economy Begets Another’

Louisiana’s petroleum industry profits from exploiting historic inequalities, showing how slavery laid the groundwork for environmental racism.
by Anya Groner via The Atlantic on May 7, 2021

Free as in Fred

Activists on the campaign were dedicated, but the city of Chicago and the FBI had conspired to murder the city’s best organizer that night in December 1969.
by Simon Balto via The Baffler on May 3, 2021
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.
by Mark Rudd, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on March 29, 2021
Students walk in the streets of Uvalde, Texas during the 1970 Uvalde School Walkout.

Remembering the Uvalde Public School Walkout of 1970

During the heyday of the Chicano Movement, school walkouts were organized to disrupt what activists called “the ongoing mis-education of Chicano students.”
by Alfredo R. Santos via Ibero Aztlan on March 19, 2021
photo of Otto Kerner with quote: "freedom for every citizen to live and work according to his capacities and not his color"

We Were Warned About a Divided America 50 Years Ago. We Ignored the Signs

As in the 1960s, the nation today stands at a turning point.
by Elizabeth Hinton via Washington Post on March 16, 2021
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
Digital art with "Help Wanted Sign", square with word "Tuna" and bottle

Solidarity Now

An experiment in oral history of the present.
by Wen Stephenson via The Baffler on January 15, 2021
Postcard of Wilshire Boulevard

Radical Movements in 1960s L.A.

A review of "Set The Night on Fire", an inspiring book that points to a new generation of activists who remain unbowed by conservative historiographies.
by Ryan Reft via The Metropole on January 11, 2021
Walkout participants in East LA in 1968.

The Long History of Mexican-American Radicalism

Mexican-American workers have a long tradition of radical organizing, stretching back to the days of the IWW and the mid-century Communist Party.
by Arvind Dilawar, Enrique Buelna via Jacobin on January 5, 2021
Artistic graphic of a woman holding hands with two other people

‘Solidarity, Not Charity’: A Visual History of Mutual Aid

Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.
by Ariel Aberg-Riger via CityLab on December 22, 2020
Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams
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The Long History of Black Women Organizing in Georgia Might Decide Senate Control

Black women in Georgia have shaped local and state politics for more than a century.
by Danielle Phillips-Cunningham via Made By History on December 10, 2020
Photo taken from behind two men in a machine gun nest

‘The Road to Blair Mountain’

It’s the biggest battle on U.S. soil that most Americans have never heard of.
by Jim Branscome via The Daily Yonder on October 1, 2020
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As Evictions Loom, Cities Revisit a Housing Solution From the 70s

Proposals giving tenants the right to purchase their building are being revived as Covid-19 puts renters at risk.
by Clyde Haberman via Retro Report on October 1, 2020

James E. Hinton’s Unseen Films Reframe the Black Power Movement

The filmmaker and photographer’s work shows late-sixties Black activism to be a joyful, community-building project.
via The New Yorker on September 25, 2020

The Forgotten Feminists of the Backlash Decade

The activists of the 1990s worked so diligently that they were written out of history.
by Maggie Doherty via The New Republic on September 24, 2020
Postage stamp with people in frotn of American flag, with the text "Hispanic Americans A Proud Heritage"

Where Did the Term "Hispanic" Come From?

"Hispanic" as the name of an ethnicity is contested today. But the category arose from a political need for unity.
by G. Cristina Mora, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on September 15, 2020
Poster featuring a red fist and text "Women Unite"

What Was Women’s Liberation?

The short-lived radical movement within feminism has gotten a bad reputation for centering white women's experiences. Is that deserved?
by Livia Gershon, Sara Evans via JSTOR Daily on September 11, 2020

We Should Still Defund the Police

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The New Yorker on August 14, 2020
A street of brick storefronts in Cumberland, Kentucky.

Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and The Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972

A landslide that exposed racial inequalities embedded in Appalachian communities.
by Jillean McCommons via Black Perspectives on June 16, 2020
African American men in jail.

“We Were Called Comrades Without Condescension or Patronage”

In the Jim Crow South, the Alabama Communist Party distinguished itself as a champion of racial and economic justice.
by Arvind Dilawar, Mary Stanton via Jacobin on April 30, 2020

Bad Romance

The afterlife of Vivian Gornick's "The Romance of American Communism" shows that we bear the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.
by Alyssa Battistoni via Dissent on April 13, 2020
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the Freedom March on Washington in 1963.

How a Heritage of Black Preaching Shaped MLK's Voice in Calling for Justice

A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther King Jr.‘s moral and ethical vision.
by Kenyatta R. Gilbert via The Conversation on January 17, 2020
An young African American man speaking at a podium with a sign "SDS: Black Power and Change"

Friends of SNCC and The Birth of The Movement

The Friends of the SNCC published the story of the struggle for freedom in the 1960s.
by Ethan Scott Barnett via The Metropole on December 10, 2019

The Greensboro Massacre at 40

Forty years after the Greensboro Massacre, a survivor talks about that day, and why organized workers are such a threat to the powerful.
by Rosalyn Pelles, Jordan T. Camp via Boston Review on November 1, 2019

Before Stonewall, There Was a Bookstore

Networks of activists transformed Stonewall from an isolated event into a turning point in the struggle for gay power.
by Jim Downs via The Atlantic on June 27, 2019

The Socialist Origins of Public Defense

The right to public defense wasn’t granted by elites. It was won by socialist-led mass movements.
by Sam Natale, John Sadek via Jacobin on June 25, 2019

Inside the St. Louis Rent Strike of 1969

Led by African American women, the strike inspired legislation that affected the entire nation.
by Caitlin Lee, Clark Randall via Belt Magazine on June 4, 2019

Oral Histories of The 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire

The events of June 1969 have come to define both Cleveland and the river. Some Clevelanders have a different story.
by Rebekkah Rubin via Belt Magazine on June 3, 2019
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