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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

Real Museums of Memphis

How the National Civil Rights Museum has obscured the ongoing dispossession of African-Americans taking place in its shadow.
by Zandria Felice Robinson via Scalawag on April 12, 2018

Martin Luther King, Jr. was More Radical Than You Think

On the 50th anniversary of his death, it’s time to remember who he really was.
by Ben Passmore via The Nib on April 4, 2018

Still a Long Time Coming

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

Josef K. in Washington

A review of "Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable" by Erwin Chemerinsky.
by David Luban via New York Review of Books on March 2, 2018

Black and Red

The history of Black Socialism in America.
by Tanna Tucker, Nestor Castillo via The Nib on February 14, 2018

Sheeeeeeeee-it: The Secret History of the Politics in ‘The Wire’

An exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming oral history of HBO’s beloved drama.
by Jonathan Abrams via The Ringer on February 6, 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 Strike That Brought MLK to Memphis

In his final days, King stood by striking sanitation workers. We returned to the city to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.
by Ted Conover via Smithsonian on January 1, 2018

On Eve of Trump Visit, Mississippi African Americans Say He’s Brought Back Past Troubles

The president’s decision to attend the opening of a new civil rights museum in Jackson has sparked protests.
by Marc Fisher via Washington Post on December 7, 2017
Basketball team listening to coach Don McClanen.

The Role of Sports Ministries in the NFL Protests

A number of black athletes are fueling their activism with Christian faith.
by Paul Putz via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 17, 2017

Flip-Flopping on Free Speech

The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on October 9, 2017
Reagan signing the bill establishing Martin Luther King Day.

The Sanitizing of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.
by Jeanne Theoharis, Jeremy Scahill via The Intercept on October 8, 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

'The City Needed Them Out'

When wealthy New Yorkers decided to build Central Park, they eliminated an egalitarian community known as Seneca Village.
by Ariel Aberg-Riger via CityLab on October 2, 2017

The NFL Has Officially Whitewashed Colin Kaepernick’s Protest

The co-opting of protests against racism has a storied history in our country.
by Louis Moore via Vox on September 28, 2017

How NFL Protests Mirror Berkeley’s 1960s Free Speech Movement

The football players are following in a long tradition of protest.
via VICE News on September 25, 2017

The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights

The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes.
by Lynn Adelman via Dissent on September 1, 2017

Laundered Violence

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via n+1 on August 23, 2017
Violence during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

America's Deadly Divide - and Why it Has Returned

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.
by David W. Blight via The Guardian on August 20, 2017

100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down Fifth Avenue to Declare That Black Lives Matter

Remembering the "Silent Protest Parade."
by Chad Williams via The Conversation on July 25, 2017

New Age Activism: Maria W. Stewart and Black Lives Matter

Black women have always been equal partners in, if not central to, the tradition of Black protest and liberation movements.
by Westenley Alcenat via Black Perspectives on July 24, 2017
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The Civil Rights Act was a Victory Against Racism. But Racists Also Won.

The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.
by Ibram X. Kendi via Made By History on July 2, 2017
Detroit street after an urban unrest: billowing smoke, debris, an armed policeman.

If You’re Black in America, Riots Are a Spiritual Impulse Not a Political Strategy

The Long Hot Summer of 1967 was the inevitable result of forced duality.
by Carvell Wallace via Timeline on June 5, 2017

Memorial Day, 1937

Eighty years ago, striking workers in Chicago were shot down by police. It transformed the course of labor rights in the US.
by Ahmed White via Jacobin on May 29, 2017
A worker prepares to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis.

How Robert E. Lee Got Knocked Off His Pedestal

Before New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu made his celebrated speech, a grassroots movement forced the city to take down its monuments to white supremacy.
by Michael "Quess" Moore, Brentin Mock via CityLab on May 29, 2017
The Tower of Babel painting by Pieter Bruegel The Elder

Identity Crisis

It’s only by acknowledging the roots of identity politics in the emancipatory movements of the past that we can begin the work of formulating an alternative.
by Salar Mohandesi via Viewpoint Magazine on March 17, 2017

An Appeal for Grace

The white historian’s responsibility to radical empathy and refuting the “invented past”.
by Caroline Grego via Erstwhile: A History Blog on February 22, 2017

Ida B. Wells and the Economics of Racial Violence

In the late 19th century, Wells connected lynchings to the economic interests and status anxieties of white southerners.
by Megan Ming Francis via Items on January 24, 2017

The Captive Aliens Who Remain Our Shame

On the origins of racial exclusion in the society that would become the United States of America.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on January 19, 2017
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