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Swimmers of all ages enjoy the Tidal Basin Bathing Beach in 1922. (Photo source: Library of Congress)

Cooling Off in the Tidal Basin

In the 1920s, Washingtonians dealt with the summer heat by going to the nearest beach...at the Tidal Basin.

by Jenna Goff via Boundary Stones on July 21, 2015

There's No National Site Devoted to Reconstruction—Yet

The National Parks Service, which preserves many Civil War sites, is finally looking for a way to mark the struggles that defined its legacy.

by Gregory P. Downs, Kate Masur via The Atlantic on April 29, 2015

Senator Abraham Ribicoff

The North’s Shameful Refusal to Face Its Own Tangled Racial Past

What we should learn from Senator Abraham Ribicoff’s failed attempt.

by Jason Sokol via HNN on January 5, 2015

Photos of the March on Washington.

The Struggle in Black and White: Activist Photographers Who Fought for Civil Rights

None of these iconic photographs would exist without the brave photographers documenting the civil rights movement.

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on October 7, 2014

Chandra Dharma Sena Gooneratne wearing a turban.

How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era

At the time, ideas of race in America were quite literally black and white. But a few meters of cloth changed the way some people of color were treated.

by Tanvi Misra via NPR on July 19, 2014

Straight Razors and Social Justice: The Empowering Evolution of Black Barbershops

Black barbershops are a symbol of community, and they provide a window into our nation's complicated racial dynamics.

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford, Quincy Mills via Collectors Weekly on May 30, 2014

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part III

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.

by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 27, 2014

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part I

How the liberal embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.

by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 3, 2014

Cover of "Making Whiteness," featuring a Black man in front of a billboard of larger-than-life white faces.

Making Whiteness

How a historian's family history informed her professional quest to unpack the stories white Southerners told about themselves.

by In Black America via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on September 1, 1998

Black Champions: Interview with Wilma Rudolph

An Olympic runner reflects on segregation and her first experiences with integrated sports events.

via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on April 11, 1985

Photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into microphones.

Let Justice Roll Down

"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."

by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Nation on March 16, 1965

James Baldwin

‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’

Revolution, the civil rights movement, and African-American identity.

by James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren via Literary Hub on April 27, 1964

Commentary of a Black Southern Bus Rider

Rosa Parks discusses her refusal to give up a seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.

by Rosa Parks, KPFA via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on December 20, 1962

Rosa Parks' mugshot.

December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Is Arrested

“This dramatic display of unity may well inspire the Negro residents of other Southern cities to similar action.”

via The Nation on December 24, 1955

Disability rights demonstrators, some in wheelchairs, one with a seeing-eye dog

How Activists Fought for Rights for People With Disabilities, and Made Them the Law

The long struggle for the Americans with Disabilities Act.

via Retro Report on December 12, 2025

Thyra J. Edwards

An Antifascist Education

Black women’s radicalism has been fascism’s enemy for 200 years.

by Jeanelle K. Hope via Lux Magazine on December 4, 2025

Enslaved people working on a coffee farm in Brazil.

Way Down South: Slavery Far Beyond the United States

Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?

by Ana Lucia Araujo via Aeon on November 13, 2025

A troop of Japanese American Girl Scouts in an internment camp.

Complicit in the Business of Indoctrination and Incarceration

By 1943, the Girl Scouts had a presence in every Japanese American internment camp.

by Amy Erdman Farrell via HNN on November 4, 2025

Black and white image of Little Richard.

'Awop-bop-aloobop alop-bam-boom!': Why Little Richard's Hit Song Tutti Frutti Was So Risqué

When the single was released in 1955, it was a big hit – but only after the original lyrics were changed.

by Greg McKevitt via BBC News on October 20, 2025

Spectators watch the Atlanta Crackers play at Ponce de Leon Park. Postcard from 1915.

“Cobb Out Front in Bid for Stadium”: Professional Baseball and the Rise of Suburbia, 1957-1962

Leaders in Cobb county pushed a huge stadium plan in the late ’50s to lure teams and suburban growth, but funding, leagues, and politics stalled it.

by Andrew J. Bramlett via Atlanta Studies on October 20, 2025

Sam Francis in front of a Confederate flag.

Only Power Matters

How Samuel Francis wrote the recipe for MAGA.

by Matt McManus via Commonweal on September 22, 2025

Fred Ross with Cesar Chavez at a demonstration in Los Angeles on February 3, 1982.

Fred Ross Changed Community Organizing

He started in the 1930s farmworker camps that inspired John Steinbeck’s novels and went on to pioneer methodical tactics that transformed American organizing.

by Peter Dreier via Jacobin on August 28, 2025

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by AFP via Getty Images and Raph Gatti/AFP via Getty Images.

What Really Happened Inside That Meeting Between James Baldwin and RFK

The emotional roller coaster that changed the course of the Civil Rights Movement.

by Nicholas Boggs via Slate on August 18, 2025

A white hand gives a key to another white hand, bypassing a Black hand.

What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged the racial wealth gap, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions.

by Idrees Kahloon via The New Yorker on July 28, 2025

A Los Angelas police officer walks away from a police cruiser with a damaged windshield.

"Corporate America’s Security Guards In-Blue": State Violence and Latinx Protest in Los Angeles

Los Angeles has a history of Latinx protest; one that is often marred by police violence.

by George Francis-Kelly via The Metropole on June 30, 2025

Brent Bozell and William F. Buckley, reading a book about Joseph McCarthy.

All In the Family

How William F. Buckley Jr. turned his father’s private convictions and prejudices into a major political movement.

by Paul Baumann via Commonweal on June 26, 2025

Color lithograph advertisement showing the interior of a Pullman dining-car, with the Pullman factory out the window, 1894.

Walking the Race Line on the Train Line

Investigators never reached a conclusion about the death of Pullman porter J. H. Wilkins, but his killing revealed much about the dangers of his profession.

by Matthew Wills, Rosemary Pearce via JSTOR Daily on June 21, 2025

Attica after state police stormed the prison, 1971.

How Should We Remember Attica?

Orisanmi Burton’s "Tip of the Spear" uncovers the obscured and radical demands of the inmates who staged the 1971 prison uprising—a world without prisons.

by Charlotte E. Rosen via The Nation on May 26, 2025

Photos of William F. Buckley and James Baldwin.

When William F. Buckley Jr. Met James Baldwin

In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped.

by Sam Tanenhaus via The Atlantic on May 20, 2025

Pope Leo XIV in front of a crowd.

Pope Leo XIV’s Link to Haiti is Part of a Broader American Story of Race, Citizenship and Migration

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

by Chelsea Stieber via The Conversation on May 14, 2025

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