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How a Standoff with the Black Panthers Fueled the Rise of SWAT

SWAT teams were created in the 1960s to combat violent events. Since then, the specialized teams have morphed into something very different.
via Retro Report on August 5, 2015
Tents at Resurrection City, 1968.

A Place for the Poor: Resurrection City

In 1968, impoverished Americans flocked to DC to live out MLK's final dream: economic equality for all.
by Jenna Goff via Boundary Stones on July 14, 2015

Ella Taught Me: Shattering the Myth of the Leaderless Movement

It’s in vogue to call the new movement against police violence "leaderless." But as Ella Baker taught us, it's more correct to say that it has many leaders.
by Barbara Ransby via Colorlines on June 12, 2015

The Case for Reparations

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 23, 2014
“The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,” an 1885 parody of an 1850 painting by Charles Lucy.

Thankstaking

Was the 'first Thanksgiving' merely a pretext for the bloodshed, enslavement, and displacement that would follow in later decades?
by Jane Kamensky via Commonplace on January 1, 2001
National Civil Rights Museum recreation of King's Birmingham jail cell.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter written from prison remains one of his most famous works.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via University of Pennsylvania on April 16, 1963

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