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A man walking by graffiti on a white wall that reads "Why do we have to keep telling you black lives matter?"

What the Protesters Tagging Historic Sites Get Right About the Past

Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression.

by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Smithsonian on June 26, 2020

Juneteenth And National New Beginnings

The holiday is a reminder of the Civil War's larger meaning, the unfulfilled promise of Reconstruction, and the reinforcement of democratic values.

by Tera W. Hunter via Essence on June 19, 2020

A wanted poster that reads "Wanted by the people: murder, aggravated assault and battery, denying civil rights, perjury. Brinley Evans, Thomas Lyons."

Wanted: An End to Police Terror

The pursuit of justice has been defined by a rote binary of punished in a cage versus unpunished and free.

by Stuart Schrader via Viewpoint Magazine on June 9, 2020

Armed military police in riot gear blocking demonstrators near the White House, June 3, 2020.

When Police Treat Protesters Like Insurgents, Sending in Troops Seems Logical

Militarized police forces laid the groundwork for using troops to quell protest.

by Stuart Schrader via Washington Post on June 4, 2020

The Police Chief Who Inspired Trump’s Tweet Glorifying Violence

Trump echoed a former Miami police chief’s anti-black words and animus.

by Julio Capó Jr. via Made By History on June 1, 2020

NOLA Resistance Oral History Project title card featuring images of the civil rights movement.

NOLA Resistance Oral History Project

This oral history project records testimony from individuals who were active in the fight for racial equality in New Orleans between 1954 and 1976.

via The Historic New Orleans Collection on June 1, 2020

A Motley Crew for our Times?

A conversation with historian Marcus Rediker about multiracial mobs, history from below and the memory of struggle.

by Marcus Rediker, Martina Tazzioli via Radical Philosophy on May 1, 2020

Love One Another or Die

During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.

by Amy Hoffman via Boston Review on April 2, 2020

The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US

Robin D.G. Kelley on the predecessors to Antifa.

by Robin D. G. Kelley via Literary Hub on March 6, 2020

Lynching Preachers: How Black Pastors Resisted Jim Crow and White Pastors Incited Racial Violence

Religion was no barrier for Southern lynch mobs intent on terror.

by Malcolm Brian Foley via The Conversation on February 10, 2020

Woman taking a photo with Iranian flags behind her. She is a demonstrator protesting a disputed election wearing a headband in support of the Green Movement. Tehran, June 15, 2009.

How the US Repeatedly Failed to Support Reform Movements in Iran

A scholar of social movements in Iran asks why the US has consistently failed to support that country's activist reform movements.

by Pardis Mahdavi via The Conversation on February 5, 2020

The author at a Feminary Collective meeting with co-members Eleanor Holland (left) and Helen Langa (center) in Durham. Photo by Elena Freedom.

The Queer South: Where The Past is Not Past, and The Future is Now

Minnie Bruce Pratt shares her own story as a lesbian within the South, and the activism that occurred and the activism still ongoing.

by Minnie Bruce Pratt via Scalawag on January 27, 2020

A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

Responding to “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” by Celeste Henery.

by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on January 13, 2020

Why We Should Remember William Monroe Trotter

A pioneering black editor, he worked closely with African-American workers to advance a liberatory black politics.

by Keisha N. Blain via Jacobin on December 29, 2019

The Contagious Revolution

For a long time, European historians paid little attention to the extraordinary series of events that now goes by the name of the Haitian Revolution.

by David A. Bell via New York Review of Books on December 19, 2019

Dr. Dre: The Chronic

Revisiting the timeless 1992 debut from Dr. Dre, a historic moment in hip-hop that redefined West Coast rap.

by Sheldon Pearce via Pitchfork on December 15, 2019

Life Under the Algorithm

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

by Gabriel Winant via The New Republic on December 4, 2019

Church

“We Shall Meet the Same Lord Together:” Native Women and Christianity in the Early Republic

American Indian woman used Christianity to maintain their agency and kinship networks.

by Jessica Criales via The Panorama on December 2, 2019

Muskets! Axes! Revolt! Here Are the Plans for a Reenactment of an Actual 1811 Rebellion

This fall 500 Louisianans, in 19th-century attire, will re-create America’s largest plantation uprising.

by Julian Lucas via Vanity Fair on September 9, 2019

Remembering The Red Summer 100 Years Later

Why it matters what language we use to describe what happened in 1919.

by David F. Krugler via HNN on August 4, 2019

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy during the Pride 2014 parade in San Francisco, California.

Writing Gay History

How the story itself came out.

by Jim Downs via Humanities on June 27, 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

Workers with a steam plough on a sugar plantation in Puerto Rico.

How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

The expansion of banks like Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and race.

by Peter James Hudson via Boston Review on June 18, 2019

The Artists and Writers Who Fought Racism With Satire in Jim Crow Mississippi

How William Faulkner and a small group of provocateurs challenged segregation in ways that resonate today.

by William Browning via Atlas Obscura on May 29, 2019

An Unreconstructed Nation: On Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Stony the Road”

A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics through artwork.

by Robert D. Bland via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 10, 2019

Edmund White on Stonewall, the ‘Decisive Uprising’ of Gay Liberation

At what point does resistance become the only choice?

by Edmund White via Literary Hub on April 30, 2019

Like Jackie Robinson, Baseball Should Honor Curt Flood's Sacrifice

Fifty years ago, Flood took a stand and paved the way for free agency.

by William C. Rhoden via Andscape on April 15, 2019

War Happens in Dark Places, Too

White southern men who didn't own slaves often escaped to the swamps to avoid conscription and wait out the Civil War.

by Keri Leigh Merritt via Contingent on March 3, 2019

When Nazis Took Manhattan

In 1939, 20,000 American Nazis rallied in New York. It was billed as a "Pro-American" rally, but championed Hitler and fascism.

by Nellie Gilles, Sarah Kate Kramer, Joe Richman via Radio Diaries on February 20, 2019

In "The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda," Ishmael Reed Revives an Old Debate

If “Hamilton” is subversive, the mischievous Reed asks, what is it subverting?

by Hua Hsu via The New Yorker on January 9, 2019

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