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The True Danger of Trump and His Media Allies Denying the Election Results

Misinformation and conspiracy theories can foment violence and thwart democracy.
by William Horne via Made By History on November 19, 2020
A man sitting on a table.

A More Perfect Union

On the Black labor organizers who fought for civil rights after Reconstruction and through the twentieth century.
by Arvind Dilawar via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 16, 2020
Illustration of a black man laying on the ground while three men step on him, 1868.

Echoes of the Reconstruction Era: The Political Violence of 1868

The 1868 Election was the first one in which hundreds of thousands of African American men voted. It also began an unfortunate history of voter suppression.
by Patrick Young via Emerging Civil War on November 6, 2020

An American Pogrom

Uncovering the truth about the 1898 massacre of black voters in Wilmington, North Carolina.
by David W. Blight via New York Review of Books on October 30, 2020

Ashes to Ashes

Should art heal the centuries of racial violence and injustice in the US?
by Taylor Rees via Psyche on October 21, 2020
James Baldwin

Freedom Day, 1963: A Lost Interview with James Baldwin

After Baldwin’s biographer died, her niece opened an old desk drawer and discovered a trove of interview material, some of it unpublished.
by James Baldwin, Fern Marja Eckman, Leslie J. Freeman via The New Yorker on September 22, 2020

‘Patriotic Education’ Is How White Supremacy Survives

No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards can.
by Jeff Sharlet via Gen on September 21, 2020

For the First Time, America May Have an Anti-Racist Majority

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on September 8, 2020
Black and white STFU members including Myrtle Lawrence and Ben Lawrence listen to Norman Thomas speak outside Parkin, Arkansas, on September 12, 1937. Louise Boyle / Kheel Center

When Black Sharecroppers in the South Rose Up

In the 1930s, Socialist and Communist organizers tried to help Black sharecroppers rise up against their oppressors.
by Arvind Dilawar, Nan Elizabeth Woodruff via Jacobin on July 7, 2020
Trestle on Central Pacific Railroad, by Carleton Watkins, 1877.

A Campaign of Forced Self-Deportation

The history of anti-Chinese violence in Truckee, California, is as old as the town itself.
by Adam Goodman via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 1, 2020
Lithograph of crowd gathering around a train.
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The Great Upheaval of 1877 Sheds Light on Today’s Protests

Spontaneous strikes led by the working class in 1877 resulted in violent clashes with police.
by Richard Schneirov via HNN on June 21, 2020
Five attendees singing at the 48th Annual Juneteenth Day Festival. The person in the middle has their fist raised.

Juneteenth in the Alternative Press

Reports in the underground press demonstrate how Juneteenth has been celebrated as both a social and political gathering in the twentieth century.
via JSTOR Daily on June 18, 2020

Alternate Histories

A conversation with John Nichols about the night in 1944 that altered the trajectory of the Democratic Party.
by John Nichols, Wen Stephenson via The Baffler on May 21, 2020

How ‘Jakarta’ Became the Codeword for US-Backed Mass Killing

The systematic mass murder and assault of accused communists in Indonesia by US-backed military forces has left a mark on the country and the world.
by Vincent Bevins via New York Review of Books on May 18, 2020

My Grandfather Participated in One of America’s Deadliest Racial Conflicts

J. Chester Johnson on the Elaine Race Massacre of 1919.
by J. Chester Johnson via Literary Hub on May 6, 2020
Illustration of a mob of white men burning down a building.

What a White-Supremacist Coup Looks Like

In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, the victory of racial prejudice over democratic principle and the rule of law was unnervingly complete.
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker on April 20, 2020
A rope used to lynch Raymond Byrd.

So You Want to Talk about Lynching? Understand This First.

If you are unwilling to do this work — and it is work — then leave that word alone.
by Michele Norris via Washington Post on October 23, 2019

Elaine Race Massacre: Red Summer in Arkansas

An interactive exhibit that explores the events and consequences of the deadliest racial conflict in Arkansas history.
via Center For Arkansas History And Culture on July 29, 2019
Label for Venere brand lemons, featuring a woman wearing lemon flowers in her hair and picking the fruit.

How Sicilian Merchants in New Orleans Reinvented America’s Diet

In the 1830s, they brought lemons, commercial dynamism, and a willingness to fight elites.
by Justin Nystrom via Zócalo Public Square on June 20, 2019
"Fleet" Walker (middle row, far left) poses with Oberlin College's first varsity baseball team in 1881. Walker went on to become the first African American major leaguer.

The First African American Major League Baseball Player Isn’t Who You Think

As the country celebrates Jackie Robinson Day, let’s consider the career of Fleet Walker.
by Ronald G. Shafer via Retropolis on April 15, 2019

The Keeper of the Secret

After decades of silence, one man pursues accountability, apologies and the meaning of racial reconciliation.
by Stephanie McCrummen via Washington Post on March 30, 2019
Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles

Remapping LA

Before California was West, it was North and it was East: an arrival point for both Mexican and Chinese immigrants.
by Carolina A. Miranda via Guernica on February 19, 2019
Birds eye view of the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1867.

The Tacoma Method

How the Chinese community of Tacoma, Washington Territory was violently expelled in 1885, and what happened next.
by Andrew Gomez via University Of Puget Sound on May 1, 2018

The Soul of W. E. B. Du Bois

Reflecting on the tremendous impact of "The Souls of Black Folk," on the 150th anniversary of Du Bois' birth.
by Ibram X. Kendi via The Paris Review on February 14, 2018
Map of lynchings in Virginia

Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia

An ongoing research project telling the stories of all the known lynching victims who were killed in Virginia between 1866 and 1932.
by Gianluca de Fazio via James Madison University on January 1, 2018
Calle de los Negros, circa 1886.

Calle de los Negros: L.A.'s "Forgotten" Street

How did Calle de los Negros get its name? And why did the city raze it in 1887?
by William D. Estrada via KCET on October 21, 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
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
Demonstrator with sign that reads "Journalism is not a crime"
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When the War on the Press Turns Violent, Democracy Itself is at Risk

The bloody history of attacks on American journalists.
by Joshua D. Rothman via Made By History on August 1, 2017

Your Revolution Was Dumb and it Filled Us With Refugees

A Canadian take on America's Revolutionary War.
by Tristin Hopper via National Post on July 3, 2017
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