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What the LAPD Recruitment Ad on Breitbart Says About the Department’s History

Becoming an agency that wouldn't dream of advertising on Breitbart will require deep changes.
by Max Felker-Kantor via Made By History on October 9, 2019
Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter rally.

Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?

Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Jacobin on October 9, 2019

The Deadly Race Riot ‘Aided and Abetted’ by the Washington Post a Century Ago

A front-page article helped incite the violence in the nation’s capital that left as many as 39 dead.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on July 15, 2019

“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," featured in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," embodied many sentiments of a black generation.
by Mark Anthony Neal via Black Perspectives on June 24, 2019
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How ‘The Highwaymen’ Whitewashes Frank Hamer and the Texas Rangers

The film’s hero left a legacy of racist violence in Texas.
by Monica Muñoz Martinez via Made By History on March 31, 2019

The Border Patrol has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924

The U.S. needs a historical reckoning with the true cause of the border crisis: the long, brutal history of border enforcement itself.
by Greg Grandin via The Intercept on January 12, 2019
The Dead Kennedys band.

America Needs a Definitive History of Dead Kennedys…And Here’s Why It Won’t Happen

"I pledge to laugh / At the Flag / Of the United States of America..."
by Will Greer via Tropics of Meta on July 30, 2018
Protesters holding an Occupy Wall St banner.

How Centuries of Protest Shaped New York City

A new book traces the “citymaking process” of riots and rebellions since the era of Dutch colonization to the present.
by Don Mitchell, Mimi Kirk via CityLab on May 24, 2018

The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad via The Nation on May 17, 2018

The Missed Opportunity of the Kerner Report

A new history recovers the forgotten legacy and radical implications of the Kerner Commission.
by William P. Jones via The Nation on April 5, 2018
Student protesters at Columbia University in 1968.

“The Whole World Is Watching”: An Oral History of the 1968 Columbia Uprising

In April 1968, students took over campus buildings in an uprising that caught the world’s attention. Fifty years later, they reflect on what went right and what went wrong.
by Clara Bingham via The Hive on March 26, 2018
Cover of Newsweek with African American fist and hand reaching up, with the title "The Negro in America: What Must Be Done."

The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened

Released 50 years ago, the report concluded that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence.
by Alice George via Smithsonian on March 1, 2018

Memories of Mississippi

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.
by Danny Lyon via New York Review of Books on January 10, 2018

Rage Against the Machine

An excerpt from a novel by Todd Gitlin that reimagines the violence outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
by Todd Gitlin via Smithsonian on January 1, 2018
Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists during a 1968 Olympics award ceremony
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The Black Athlete in America

Colin Kaepernick continues a long tradition of athletes using their celebrity to protest America's racial inequality.
by Matt Spolar, Brian Kamerzel via Retro Report on December 21, 2017

The Long History of Black Officers Reforming Policing From Within

Some police are becoming more vocal advocates of change. But the project of ending racial bias in policing is a decades-old one.
by Taylor Hosking via The Atlantic on December 5, 2017
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Law & Order, Philadelphia Style

The city that just elected a civil rights lawyer as D.A. is the same city presided over for years by "Mayor Cop" Frank Rizzo.
by Sara Mayeux, Timothy Lombardo on November 17, 2017

No Rights Which the White Man Is Bound to Respect

The spectre of Dred Scott is haunting St. Louis.
by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on September 27, 2017

From Louis Armstrong to the N.F.L: Ungrateful as the New Uppity

The belief endures, from Armstrong’s time that visible, affluent African-American entertainers are obliged to adopt a pose of ceaseless gratitude.
by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on September 24, 2017
Young men show a reporter how to make molotov cocktails in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in July 1966. (Bill Ray/Life Picture Collection/Getty Images)

One of America's Smartest Magazines Published a Molotov Cocktail How-To in 1967

A riot represents people making history.
by Nina Renata Aron via Timeline on September 23, 2017
Mavis Staples singing on stage, head back and hand raised.

Mavis Staples on Prince, Trump, Black Lives Matter, and Her Exercise Regimen

Mavis Staples' lyrics span from the civil-rights-era to today's societal issues.
by Mavis Staples, Elon Green via The New Yorker on September 11, 2017
Court room 63 members of the all-black 24th Infantry are seated to be tried for mutiny and murder in Houston, 1917.

Vandals Damage Historical Marker Commemorating 1917 Uprising by Black Soldiers

100 years after a riot that left 19 people dead, descendants of the men held responsible are asking for posthumous pardons.
by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on September 8, 2017
A patient in solitary confinement at a special hospital at Broadmoor in Berkshire (1956).
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America Must Listen to its Prisoners Before We Make a Major Mistake

The anniversary of two major revolts remind us that tough-on-crime policies have created intense suffering in our prisons.
by Heather Ann Thompson via Made By History on September 8, 2017
President Lyndon B. Johnson with members of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, including Otto Kerner.

The 1968 Kerner Report was a Watershed Document on Race in America—and it Did Very Little

After the urban unrest of the Long Hot Summer, a commission was formed.
by Jamil Smith via Timeline on August 18, 2017

What We Still Get Wrong About What Happened in Detroit in 1967

One of the key factors in what happened in 1967 in Detroit has long gone overlooked
by Lily Rothman via TIME on August 3, 2017
A Black man speaks as other protesters stand around him.

White Milwaukee Lied to Itself for Decades, and in 1967 the Truth Came Out

When the Long Hot Summer came to Wisconsin, the reality of race relations was impossible to ignore.
by Syreeta McFadden via Timeline on August 2, 2017

Policing the Community

Today, many politicians claim a community approach means soft on crime. Birmingham's Johnnie Johnson Jr. disagrees.
by Lanier Isom via The Bitter Southerner on July 18, 2017
Someone writes at a desk next to a gavel, with the scales of justice in the background.

The Rise of the Prosecutor Politicians

How local prosecutors' offices have become stepping stones to higher office.
by Jed Handelsman Shugerman via SHUGERBLOG on July 7, 2017

The Necessity of Juneteenth

The most famous Emancipation holiday is more necessary now than it has ever been.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 19, 2017
The Black Panthers and Young Patriots at a press conference.

The Panthers and the Patriots

The story of how a group of poor whites in Chicago united with the Black Panthers to fight racism and capitalism.
by Michael McCanne via Jacobin on May 19, 2017
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