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Protestors marching with "I am Troy Davis" sign

The Execution That Birthed a Movement

Troy Davis' death at the hands of the state on Sept. 21, 2011, transformed Occupy and kindled Black Lives Matter.

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Jen Marlowe via In These Times on September 17, 2016

Black History Is American History

What is the greatest libertarian accomplishment of all time? The abolition of slavery.

by David Boaz via Cato Institute on February 11, 2015

Cover of "Empire of Necessity" featuring a painting of violence being wrought on enslaved men.

The Bleached Bones of the Dead

What the modern world owes slavery. (It’s more than back wages).

by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on February 23, 2014

Still from “The Rejected,” a 1961 documentary about homosexuals. Hal Call (at right), president of the Mattachine Society and Don Lucas, Mattachine’s executive secretary. Credit: San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive

The Homosexual in Our Society

This 1958 interview is the earliest known radio recording to overtly discuss homosexuality.

by Blanche M. Baker, KPFA, Elsa Knight Thompson, Harold Leland Call, Leah Gailey via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 24, 1958

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