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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.

Flip-Flopping on Free Speech

The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.
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.

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.

'The City Needed Them Out'

When wealthy New Yorkers decided to build Central Park, they eliminated an egalitarian community known as Seneca Village.

The NFL Has Officially Whitewashed Colin Kaepernick’s Protest

The co-opting of protests against racism has a storied history in our country.

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

The football players are following in a long tradition of protest.

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.

Laundered Violence

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.
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.

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

Remembering the "Silent Protest Parade."

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.
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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.
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.

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.
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.
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.

An Appeal for Grace

The white historian’s responsibility to radical empathy and refuting the “invented past”.

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.

The Captive Aliens Who Remain Our Shame

On the origins of racial exclusion in the society that would become the United States of America.
Black women raising the Black power fist.

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.

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.
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.
Abolitionist image of an enslaved man in chains and the words "Am I not a man and a brother?"

The Truth About Abolition

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

How the objects in the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia can help us understand today's prejudice and racial violence.
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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.
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.

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.

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