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Two people photographed in Zion National Park.

When the Park Ranger Was Not Your Friend

Early 20th century National Park Service Rangers were a notoriously rough-and-tumble lot.

by Joseph Hayes, Alice B. Kelly Pennaz, Mark Hufstetler, George Jaramillo via JSTOR Daily on January 18, 2019

1968: Soul Music and the Year of Black Power

The summer's hit songs offered a glimpse into the changing views of Black America.

by Mark Anthony Neal via Black Perspectives on December 31, 2018

A Century of American Protest

A side-by-side look at some of the political protests that have shaped American politics over the past hundred years.

by Eric Maierson via The New Yorker on November 5, 2018

Frank Rizzo

Frank Rizzo and the Making of Modern American Politics

How Rizzo's blue-collar populism helped him survive his tumultuous first term as mayor.

by Timothy Lombardo via Tropics of Meta on October 16, 2018

How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings

Sherilynn A. Ifill on justice (and its absence) in the 1930s.

by Sherilynn A. Ifill via Literary Hub on September 26, 2018

The Secret History of Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas

In her groundbreaking new book, Monica Muñoz Martinez uncovers the legacy of a brutal past.

by Carlos Kevin Blanton via Texas Monthly on September 21, 2018

Stop Calling it ‘The Great Migration’

For people of color watching over their shoulder, the fear of police interference harkens back to a historical moment with a much-too-benign label.

by Brentin Mock via CityLab on July 4, 2018

Protesting Law Enforcement Is as Old as America Itself

Had British authorities and their soldiers exercised de-escalation tactics, would the United States exist today?

by Robin Washington via The Marshall Project on July 3, 2018

During the 1973 UpStairs Lounge Arson, Gays Had to Take Rescue Efforts Into Their Own Hands

The New Orleans Fire Department was accused of not responding immediately and refusing to touch the bodies of victims.

by Jim Downs via Slate on June 22, 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

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

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