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White Supremacy Is the Achilles Heel of American Democracy

Even in a high-tech era, fears about minority political agency are the most reliable way to destabilize the U.S. political system.
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the 'alt-right' clash with counter-protesters at the Unite the Right rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, VA.

The Vietnam War and White Power

A conversation with the author of "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America."

Why a Woman Who Killed Indians Became Memorialized as the First Female Public Statue

Hannah Duston was used as a national symbol of innocence, valor, and patriotism to justify westward expansion.
Artist Titus Kaphar says that his 2014 Columbus Day Painting—which greets "Unseen" visitors in the first gallery—was inspired by his young son’s conflicted and confusing study of the putative discoverer of America.

Two Artists in Search of Missing History

A new exhibition makes a powerful statement about the oversights of American history and America’s art history.

I Am a Big Black Man Who Will Never Own a Gun Because I Know I Would Use It

On history, race, and guns in America.

Still a Long Time Coming

Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.
Young men in custody after the Zoot Suit Riots.
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The Dangerous Game Donald Trump Is Playing With MS-13

Exaggerating the danger of the group only creates new problems.
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.

The Kerner Omission

How a landmark report on the 1960s race riots fell short on police reform.

The Whitewashing of King's Assassination

The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.

Black and Red

The history of Black Socialism in America.

Memories of Mississippi

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.
Recy Taylor

Recy Taylor's Truth

How one black woman's campaign for justice after a rape by six white men shaped the struggle for equality—and the #MeToo movement.
Map of lynchings in Virginia

Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia

An ongoing research project telling the stories of all the known lynching victims who were killed in Virginia between 1866 and 1932.

An Intimate History of America

A reminder of history's proximity is prompted by a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

A White Mother Went to Alabama to Fight for Civil Rights. The Klan Killed Her for It.

What motivated Viola Liuzzo to take up the cause of justice hundreds of miles from her home?

The Bombs, the Church, the City, the State

What was Alabama back then? And what is Alabama right now?
Civil War rifles mounted on wall

The Brutal Origins of Gun Rights

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.

Before the Bus, Rosa Parks Was a Sexual Assault Investigator

The civil rights icon also played a key role in pursuing justice for the victims of sexual assault.

Ku Klux Klambakes

What does the Klan of the 1920s have to teach us about the resurgence of organized bigotry in the Trump era?

Forgiving the Unforgivable: Geronimo’s Descendants Seek to Salve Generational Trauma

Traveling to the heart of Mexico for a Ceremonia del Perdón.
Louis Beam

Armed Resistance, Lone Wolves, and Media Messaging: Meet the Godfather of the ‘Alt-Right’

There would be no Richard Spencer without Louis Beam.

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

Masked men who take the law into their own hands.
A line of prisoners picking cotton in Huntsville, Texas.

The Oil Boom’s Roots in East Texas Cotton Farming

Oil’s rise was as dependent on the old as much as the new. The industry also benefited from changes in agriculture.

Introducing Reconstruction

The new Slate Academy finds the seeds of our present politics in the period after the Civil War.

Uncovering Hidden History on the Road to Clanton

Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.

The Road to Charlottesville Runs Through Americus, Georgia

While Trump's response was unprecedented, the inclination to highlight violence on the Left – especially from black Americans – is not.

Hanged, Burned, Shot, Drowned, Beaten

In a region where symbols of the Confederacy are ubiquitous, an unprecedented memorial takes shape.
Armed soldiers and Black men standing outside a cafe.

Sex, Swimming and Chicago's Racial Divide

Even as a child, Eugene Williams was not safe from the harm caused by the ways of northern racism.
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.

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