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Black and white photo of Fannie Lou Hamer in her rocking chair.

Why Fannie Lou Hamer’s Definition of "Freedom" Still Matters

The human rights activist and former sharecropper once said that “you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free.”
by Keisha N. Blain, Jamil Smith via Vox on October 21, 2021
Young and old hands.
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The Pandemic has Exacerbated the Transformation of Grandparenthood

While our perceptions of grandparents have remained static, we've asked them to do a lot more.
by Sarah Stoller via Made By History on October 18, 2021
Archaeologists excavating grounds near the Rhode Island state house.

Before Rhode Island Built Its State House, a Racist Mob Destroyed the Community That Lived There

In 1831, a group of white rioters razed the Providence neighborhood of Snowtown. Now, archaeologists are excavating its legacy.
by Robin Catalono via Smithsonian on October 5, 2021

The South’s Resistance to Vaccination Is Not As Incomprehensible As It Seems

The psychological forces driving “red COVID” have deep historical roots.
by Angie Maxwell, Rebecca Onion via Slate on October 1, 2021
A family photo shows Balqes Jassem with her late husband, Abdul Ameer Alwan, and their daughter, Aman Alwan, at home in Richardson, Tex. The older Alwan was an Iraqi painter who passed away in 2015. The family came to the United States as Iraqi refugees in 2007.

New Americans

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis displaced by war have settled in the U.S., their journeys spurred by tragedy and loss in the wake of 9/11.
by Abigail Hauslohner via Washington Post on September 9, 2021
A bullet whose path makes an audio file.

What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban

I spent 600 hours listening in on the people who now run Afghanistan. It wasn’t until the end of my tour that I understood what they were telling me.
by Ian Fritz via The Atlantic on August 19, 2021

The Myth of the Golden Years

Whether economic times are good or bad, the lament for the old days of factories and mills never changes.
by Tom Nichols via The Atlantic on August 4, 2021
Young Lords Party march to the UN.

The Young Lords' Radical Fight for Environmental Justice

Johanna Fernández's new book on the Young Lords sheds light on the group's fight for clean streets and public health in 1960s New York City.
by Erik Wallenberg via Edge Effects on July 29, 2021
Dick Gregory

The Legacy of a Civil Rights Icon’s Vegetarian Cookbook

Dick Gregory was an activist, comedian, and trendsetter for Black vegans.
by Shea Peters via Atlas Obscura on July 21, 2021

U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again

The nation’s poverty and chaos has been shaped by Washington for decades.
by Jonathan M. Katz via Foreign Policy on July 13, 2021
Sketch of Harlem reimagined

How a Harlem Skyrise Got Hijacked—and Forgotten

The fate of June Jordan’s visionary reimagining of Harlem shows that when it comes to Utopias, the key question is always: “Whose?”
by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts via The Nation on July 10, 2021
John Henry swinging a hammer, with the steam drill behind him.

John Henry and the Divinity of Labor

Variations in the legend of a steel-driving man tell us about differing American views of the value and purpose of work.
by Jake Maynard via Current Affairs on July 6, 2021
Black men and women in Hilton Head, South Carolina, after the Civil War.

The United States' First Civil Rights Movement

A new history charts the radical agitation around Black rights and freedom back to the early nineteenth century. 
by Kellie Carter Jackson via The Nation on June 16, 2021
Job seekers wait to be called into the Heartland Workforce Solutions office in Omaha last summer.
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How Cruelty Became the Point of Our Labor and Welfare Policies

Why do so many politicians think people only work if threatened or forced into doing so?
by Gail Savage via Made By History on May 26, 2021
Grave labeled "Pauline C. Fryer, Union Spy"

'UNION SPY': The Forgotten Tale of the Presidio's Most Intriguing Grave

How a spy came to be buried in San Francisco is a forgotten tale of adventure, intrigue, and tragedy.
by Katie Dowd via SFGATE on May 16, 2021
A woman with a baby
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The Feminist History of “Child Allowances”

The Biden administration’s proposed “child allowances” draw on the feminist thought of Crystal Eastman, who advocated “motherhood endowments” 100 years ago.
by Lucie Levine via JSTOR Daily on May 12, 2021
Anti-War and Anti-Fascist Demonstration In New York

Cameras for Class Struggle

How the radical documentarians of the Workers' Film and Photo League put their art in the service of social movements.
by Max Pearl via Art In America on April 21, 2021
President Biden in a warehouse
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Government Has Always Picked Winners and Losers

A welfare state doesn't distort the market; it just makes government aid fairer.
by David M. P. Freund via Made By History on March 29, 2021
photo of Otto Kerner with quote: "freedom for every citizen to live and work according to his capacities and not his color"

We Were Warned About a Divided America 50 Years Ago. We Ignored the Signs

As in the 1960s, the nation today stands at a turning point.
by Elizabeth Hinton via Washington Post on March 16, 2021
Dominique Walker, a member of Moms 4 Housing and group spokeswoman, speaking in front of City Hall

Redlining, Predatory Inclusion, and Housing Segregation

Redlining itself cannot explain this persistence of inequality in America's cities.
by Paige Glotzer via Black Perspectives on March 10, 2021
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Burden of Richmond Evictions Weighs Heaviest in Black Neighborhoods

An eviction moratorium has slowed filings in cities like Richmond, but it hasn’t stopped them, and Black tenants are at highest risk.
via Retro Report on March 2, 2021
Picture of the Ingalls family from the TV Series, "Little House on the Prairie."

Laura Ingalls Wilder in the Big Woke Woods

A recent documentary reminds us of her family’s strength and our own weakness.
by Jonathon Van Maren via The American Conservative on February 26, 2021
image of Milton Friedman reading a book

"Welfare Without The Welfare State": The Death of the Postwar Welfarist Consensus

Cash transfers are an efficient response to the Covid-19 crisis, but UBI is a radical transformation of how states conceptualise and provide for people’s needs.
by Daniel Zamora, Anton Jäger via New Statesman on February 9, 2021
A car window with a sign in it that reads "let freedom ring" with an illustration of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Challenge to Liberal Allies — and Why It Resonates Today

King understood the perils of submerged racism.
by Jeanne Theoharis via Made By History on February 8, 2021
Artistic photo of Malcolm X

Malcolm’s Ministry

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.
by Brandon M. Terry via New York Review of Books on February 4, 2021
An anatomical diagram of a man's muscular system.

Seeking the Truth Behind Books Bound in Human Skin

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.
by Megan Rosenblum via Atlas Obscura on January 29, 2021
Black man holding a protest sign that says "you may be next!"; cover image of book The Condemnation of Blackness.

Lying with Numbers

How statistics were used in the urban North to condemn Blackness as inherently criminal.
by Mary F. Corey via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 29, 2021
A hand holding a stethoscope and knife.

The Blackwell Sisters and the Harrowing History of Modern Medicine

A new biography of the pioneering doctors shows why “first” can be a tricky designation.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on January 25, 2021
Map of Oberlin Village in Raleigh, NC.

Vanishing Neighborhoods

The fate of Raleigh's 11 missing freedman's villages.
by Heather Leah via WRAL on January 21, 2021
Herbert Hoover in January 1933

Herbert Hoover Did Something Donald Trump is Unwilling to Do

While Herbert Hoover was deeply critical of his successor, he put aside his differences to ensure the peaceful and democratic transition of power.
by Meg Jacobs via CNN on January 20, 2021
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