George Floyd protests

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.

A lethal incident of police brutality in Miami in 1979 offers just one of countless examples of the reality generations of African Americans have faced.

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

Wielding the outside agitator trope has always, at bottom, been a way of putting dissidents in their place.

The authoritarian tactics we’ve exported around the world in the name of national security are now being deployed in Portland.

The Great Toppling of 2020 and the rebirth of civic imagination.

A collaborative project that set out in the summer of 2020 to document the removal of monuments through both official and unofficial channels.

Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression.

Songs from Public Enemy and Ludacris have been heard at marches, continuing a tradition that dates back to the blues.

Cynthia Tucker shares her hope that a new generation of activists can learn from Lewis' courageous and peaceful fight for “beloved community.”

After Governor Northam announced its removal, two Richmond historians reflect on the legacy of the Lee Monument.

Spontaneous strikes led by the working class in 1877 resulted in violent clashes with police.

How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next.

Amid calls to defund police, cops are framing themselves as victims. We must remember who is really being brutalized.

A combination of historical surpluses—the afterlives of slavery, of the deranged presidency—has raised the stakes in the present struggle.

Protest slogans and the terms for debate.

Past network efforts to address racism faded as uprisings stopped dominating headlines.

As people have gathered across the country to oppose police violence, they have targeted statues, monuments, and buildings commemorating white supremacy.

Militarized police forces laid the groundwork for using troops to quell protest.

The history of using militarized force domestically.

On the origins of the Insurrection Act, which allows the president to call on federal troops and state militias to put down insurrections.

Why Southerners protesting structural racism in the criminal justice system have turned time and again to the monuments in their communities.

The nationwide protests against police killings have been called un-American by critics, but rebellion has always been used to defend liberty.

As a historian, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the fallout from Watts and other rebellions.

DOJ civil rights lawyers' resignations after leaders' refusal to probe ICE murder echo past revolts as administrations tried to politicize the Division.

A look at the long history of censorship in public school yearbooks.

The fantastical roots of “scientific racism.”

Atlanta’s 1966 Summerhill Rebellion erupted after police shot Harold Prather, exposing racism, poverty, and neglect worsened by stadium-led upheaval.

Cities across the American West are issuing belated apologies for 19th-century expulsions of Chinese residents, but their meaning and audience remain uncertain.