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Algorithms Associating Appearance and Criminality Have a Dark Past

In discussions about facial-recognition software, phrenology analogies seem like a no-brainer. In fact, they’re a dead-end.

by Catherine Stinson via Aeon on May 15, 2020

The Day Police Bombed a City Street: Can Scars of 1985 Move Atrocity be Healed?

An airstrike killed 11 people, including five children, in an assault on a Philadelphia black liberation group. Now a reconciliation effort is under way.

by Ed Pilkington via The Guardian on May 10, 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

In the Time of Monsters

Watchmen is a sophisticated inquiry into the ethical implications of its own form—the flash and bang, the prurience and violence of comic books.

by Namwali Serpell via New York Review of Books on March 19, 2020

The School Shooting That Austin Forgot

In 1978, an eighth grader from a prominent Austin family killed his teacher. His classmates are still haunted by what happened that terrible day and after.

by Robert Draper via Texas Monthly on March 18, 2020

Five Myths About Slavery

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.

by Daina Ramey Berry, Talitha L. LeFlouria via Washington Post on February 7, 2020

Illustration of slavecatchers surrounding a fugitive.

‘A World Turned Upside Down’: How Slavery Morphed into Today’s Carceral State

A new book uses the story of a former slave trader who profited after the Civil War by trafficking in convict labor to trace the historical roots of mass incarceration and racial profiling.

by Isidoro Rodriguez via The Crime Report on January 28, 2020

Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

The Northern Student Movement considered inviting Rosa Parks to give a speech on police brutality, but ultimately decided against it.

by Say Burgin via Black Perspectives on January 23, 2020

The Nazis and the Trawniki Men

Decades after the war, a group of prosecutors and historians discovered the truth about a mysterious SS training camp in occupied Poland.

by Debbie Cenziper via Washington Post Magazine on January 23, 2020

Police body cam

The American Tradition of Anti-Black Vigilantism

The history of patrols, body cams, and more.

by Darryl Pinckney via Literary Hub on November 18, 2019

Hooded Klansmen featured in UVA's 1922 yearbook.

UVA and the History of Race: When the KKK flourished in Charlottesville

Charlottesville and the UVA were enthusiastic participants in the national resurgence of public and celebratory white supremacy.

by Ashley Schmidt, Kirt von Daacke via UVA Today on September 25, 2019

Sunbathers and picnickers in Central Park.

How Central Park’s Complex History Played Into the Case Against the 'Central Park Five'

The furor that erupted throughout New York City cannot be disentangled from the long history of the urban oasis.

by Maddie Burakoff via Smithsonian on May 31, 2019

Illustration of birth certificate and coin necklace

Ghosts In My Blood

Regina Bradley searches for truths about her great-grandfather and his murder.

by Regina Bradley via Southern Cultures on April 9, 2019

Half the Land in Oklahoma Could be Returned to Native Americans. It Should Be.

A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.

by Rebecca Nagle via Washington Post on November 28, 2018

How a Folk Singer’s Murder Forced Chile to Confront Its Past

Víctor Jara was a legendary Chilean folk singer and political activist whose murder during a U.S.-backed military coup in 1973 went unsolved for decades.

via Retro Report on November 18, 2018

Being Morally Serious About the Supreme Court

What sorts of youthful transgressions are forgivable, and which are disqualifying, for which jobs?

by Nils Gilman via The American Interest on October 3, 2018

The Counterfeit Queen of Soul

A strange and bittersweet ballad of kidnapping, stolen identity and unlikely stardom.

by Jeff Maysh via Smithsonian on June 28, 2018

Shafer Commission

Nixon Made a Mistake on Pot. Will Trump Do the Same with Opioids?

Decades after Nixon waged war on pot, Trump is doing the some with opioids. It could make things worse.

by Emily Dufton via Made By History on April 20, 2018

The mugshot of James Earl Ray next to a picture of Martin Luther King Jr.

Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.? His Family Believes James Earl Ray Was Framed.

Coretta Scott King described “a major, high-level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband.” The King children remain certain of that, too.

by Tom Jackman via Retropolis on March 30, 2018

The Kerner Omission

How a landmark report on the 1960s race riots fell short on police reform.

by Nicole Lewis via The Marshall Project on March 1, 2018

Donald Trump Wants to Fight the FBI? It’s a Suicide Mission.

Presidents who take on the Bureau rarely win.

by Tim Weiner via Politico Magazine on January 26, 2018

Bad Boys

How “Cops” became the most polarizing reality TV show in America.

by Tim Stelloh via The Marshall Project on January 22, 2018

The Bombs, the Church, the City, the State

What was Alabama back then? And what is Alabama right now?

by Charles P. Pierce via Esquire on December 11, 2017

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

Masked men who take the law into their own hands.

by Chris Gavaler via Literary Hub on November 3, 2017

Roy Moore with a cowboy hat, gun, and microphone, in front of an American flag.

The Reason Roy Moore Won in Alabama That No One is Talking About

Centuries of economic inequality have left Southern politics ripe for insurgent outsiders.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Made By History on October 5, 2017

Colin Kaepernick: Historical Perspectives

Throughout history, one would be hard-pressed to find an example of black protest that most white people found acceptable at the time.

by Erin Burin via North Dakota Perspectives on October 4, 2017

Court room 63 members of the all-black 24th Infantry are seated to be tried for mutiny and murder in Houston, 1917.

Vandals Damage Historical Marker Commemorating 1917 Uprising by Black Soldiers

100 years after a riot that left 19 people dead, descendants of the men held responsible are asking for posthumous pardons.

by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on September 8, 2017

Our Long, Troubling History of Sterilizing the Incarcerated

State-sanctioned efforts to keep the incarcerated from reproducing began in the early 20th century and continue today.

by David M. Perry via The Marshall Project on July 26, 2017

Toward an Environmental History of American Prisons

Like many facets of the American past, mass incarceration looks different if we consider it through the lens of environmental history.

by Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. via Process: A Blog for American History on June 22, 2017

Lynching in America

A new digital exhibit confronts the legacy of racial terror.

via Equal Justice Initiative on June 13, 2017

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