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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

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

Black Panther Women: The Unsung Activists Who Fed and Fought for Their Community

Judy Juanita on her novel 'Virgin Soul,' which incorporates her experiences as a Black Panther living in San Francisco.

by Lisa Hix, Judy Juanita via Collectors Weekly on December 2, 2016

The Longest March

In August 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, Martin Luther King’s campaign to break the grip of segregation, reached its violent culmination.

by David Bernstein via Chicago Magazine on July 25, 2016

A book about black power lies next to a pair of running shoes, 1969.

A Black Power Method

Interrogating dominant white perspectives in mainstream media outlets, government records, and in the very definition of what constitutes a credible source.

by N. D. B. Connolly via Public Books on June 15, 2016

The Truth About Abolition

The movement finally gets the big, bold history it deserves.

by Adam Rothman via The Atlantic on April 1, 2016

Malcolm X

The Legacy of Malcolm X

Malcolm X died fifty-one years ago today, just as he was moving toward revolutionary ideas that challenged oppression in all its forms.

by Ahmed Shawki via Jacobin on February 21, 2016

Orson Welles

A Hundred Years of Orson Welles

He was said to have gone into decline, but his story is one of endurance—even of unlikely triumph.

by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on November 30, 2015

Jim Crow-era postcard with illustration of a black boy in the jaws of an alligator

How America Bought and Sold Racism, and Why It Still Matters

Today, very few white Americans openly celebrate the horrors of black enslavement—most refuse to recognize the brutal nature of the institution or activ...

by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on November 10, 2015

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