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Edna Lewis in the kitchen.

The People of Freetown

Can renowned Southern chef and writer Edna Lewis' radical communist politics be parsed out by analyzing her cookbooks?
by Mayukh Sen via Popula on September 26, 2018

In the Hate of Dixie

Cynthia Tucker returns to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama – also the hometown of Harper Lee, and the site of 17 lynchings.
by Cynthia Tucker via The Bitter Southerner on August 28, 2018
A mother pushes a child, on a swing at the Cabrini-Green public housing project in Chicago, May 28, 1981.

The 1992 Horror Film That Made a Monster Out of a Chicago Housing Project

In Candyman, the notorious Cabrini-Green complex is haunted by urban myths and racial paranoia.
by Ben Austen via Zócalo Public Square on August 17, 2018

Aretha Franklin’s Revolution

The soul singer was an architect of the civil-rights movement as much as a witness to it.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on August 16, 2018

The Historical Roots of Blues Music

The blues is not "slave music," but the music of freed African Americans.
by Lamont Pearley Sr. via Black Perspectives on May 9, 2018
Inside the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, AL.

The Pain We Still Need to Feel

The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on May 1, 2018

Still a Long Time Coming

Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on March 21, 2018

Carter G. Woodson’s West Virginia Wasn’t ‘Trump Country,’ It Was a Land of Opportunity

In his travelogues, Woodson rhapsodized over what he saw as a love of democracy among hard-scrabble mountain settlers of both races.
by Cynthia R. Greenlee via 100 Days in Appalachia on February 28, 2018

Black and Red

The history of Black Socialism in America.
by Tanna Tucker, Nestor Castillo via The Nib on February 14, 2018
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex in Dallas.
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Republicans Want to Use Immigration Policy to Make America Whiter. They’re Destined to Fail.

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.
by Julia G. Young via Made By History on February 6, 2018

Ku Klux Klambakes

What does the Klan of the 1920s have to teach us about the resurgence of organized bigotry in the Trump era?
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on December 7, 2017

Jane Addams’s Crusade Against Victorian “Dancing Girls”

Jane Addams, a leading Victorian-era reformer, believed dance halls were “one of the great pitfalls of the city.”
by Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on October 11, 2017
Armed soldiers and Black men standing outside a cafe.

Sex, Swimming and Chicago's Racial Divide

Even as a child, Eugene Williams was not safe from the harm caused by the ways of northern racism.
by Betsy Schlabach via Black Perspectives on October 3, 2017

The Military, Minorities, and Social Engineering

Trump’s transgender ban restarts the debate about the relation between military service and social policy.
by Richard S. Slotkin via The Conversation on August 7, 2017
A Black man speaks as other protesters stand around him.

White Milwaukee Lied to Itself for Decades, and in 1967 the Truth Came Out

When the Long Hot Summer came to Wisconsin, the reality of race relations was impossible to ignore.
by Syreeta McFadden via Timeline on August 2, 2017

Bring the Noize

A search for the source of Southern hip-hop’s magic will always lead you to three men from Atlanta, known to the world as Organized Noize.
by Joycelyn Wilson via The Bitter Southerner on June 27, 2017
Soldiers in the 15th New York.

Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.
via Equal Justice Initiative on November 11, 2016

Visualizing the Red Summer

A comprehensive digital archive, map, and timeline of riots and lynchings across the U.S. in 1919.
by Karen Sieber via Visualizing the Red Summer on October 16, 2016
Photograph of Redd Velvet (born Crystal Tucker) who started her career as a classically trained singer.

Keeping The Blues Alive

Is blues music a thing of the past? A festival in Memphis featuring musicians of all ages and nationalities shouts an upbeat answer.
by Touré via Smithsonian on August 26, 2016

Is the Greatest Collection of Slave Narratives Tainted by Racism?

How Depression-Era racial dynamics may have shaped our understanding of antebellum enslaved life.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 6, 2016

When People Flee to America’s Shores

We are a nation of immigrants and refugees. Yet we always fear who is coming next.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on November 17, 2015

The Price of Union

The undefeatable South.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on November 2, 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
Dr. Ossian Sweet

Dr. Ossian Sweet's Black Life Mattered

It has been 90 years since Ossian Sweet tried to move into his new home; since police stood by and did nothing as a mob threw rocks.
by David F. Krugler, Victoria W. Wolcott, Heather Bourbeau, Leslie Brown, Anne Valk, James W. McElhaney, Lance Freeman via JSTOR Daily on June 17, 2015

The Case for Reparations

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 23, 2014
C. L. Franklin and his daughter Aretha.

The Man with the Million Dollar Voice

The mighty but divided soul of C.L. Franklin.
by Tony Scherman via The Believer on July 1, 2013

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