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The Consequences of Forgetting

The reparations struggle is about remembering that America was built on slavery, but also about fighting for all working people.

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Jacobin on May 7, 2019

Black doctors.

The 1910 Report That Disadvantaged Minority Doctors

A century ago, the Flexner Report led to the closure of 75% of U.S. medical schools. It still explains a lot about today’s unequal access to healthcare.

by Jessie Wright-Mendoza, Lynne E. Miller, Richard M. Weiss via JSTOR Daily on May 3, 2019

A Book of Necessary, Speculative Narratives for the Anonymous Black Women of History

Unearthing the beauty in the wayward, the fiction in the facts, and the thriving existence in the face of a blanked out history.

by Sarah Rose Sharp via Hyperallergic on April 15, 2019

'Not a Racist Bone in His Body’: The Origins of the Default Defense Against Racism

The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

by Justin Gomer, Christopher F. Petrella via Made By History on April 11, 2019

Segregated by Design

The forgotten history of how our governments unconstitutionally segregated this country.

by Richard Rothstein, Mark Lopez via Silkworm Studio on April 5, 2019

Making Good on the Broken Promise of Reparations

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.

by Katherine Franke via New York Review of Books on March 18, 2019

Black Farmworkers in the Central Valley: Escaping Jim Crow for a Subtler Kind of Racism

"The difference between here and the South is just that — it's hidden."

by Alexandra Hall via KQED on February 22, 2019

The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law

How Plessy v. Ferguson shaped the history of racial discrimination in America.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on February 4, 2019

Voter Suppression Carries Slavery's Three-Fifths Clause into the Present

The Georgia governor’s election was the latest example of how James Madison’s words continue to shape our views on race.

by Imani Perry via The Guardian on January 31, 2019

Children looking at an architectural model of a city.

Imagining a Past Future: Photographs from the Oakland Redevelopment Agency

City planner John B. Williams — and the photographic archive he commissioned — give us the opportunity to complicate received stories of failed urban renewal.

by Moriah Ulinskas via Places Journal on January 22, 2019

When King was Dangerous

He's remembered as a person of conscience who carefully broke unjust laws. But his challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.

by Alex Gourevitch via Jacobin on January 21, 2019

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Meaning of Emancipation

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.

by Asad Haider via n+1 on January 18, 2019

America’s Original Sin

Slavery and the legacy of white supremacy.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via Foreign Affairs on December 20, 2018

Voters casting ballots in 2008.

The United States Isn’t a Democracy — And Was Never Intended to Be

Voting has always been restricted to empower a minority.

by Michael Todd Landis via Made By History on November 6, 2018

Payback

For years, Chicago cops tortured false confessions out of hundreds of black men. Years later, the survivors fought for reparations.

by Natalie Y. Moore via The Marshall Project on October 30, 2018

Prisons for Sale, Histories Not Included

The intertwined history of mass incarceration and environmentalism in Upstate New York's prison-building boom.

by Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. via Edge Effects on October 23, 2018

Fighting to Vote

Voting rights are often associated with the Civil Rights Movement, but this fight extends throughout American history.

by Michael Tomasky via New York Review of Books on October 22, 2018

Woman gets help filling out voter registration form.

Voter Fraud Isn’t a Problem in America. Low Turnout Is.

For centuries, voter fraud has been used as an excuse to restrict the vote.

by Allan J. Lichtman via Made By History on October 22, 2018

Freedom Hill historic marker half underwater in a flood.

The Water Next Time?

For generations, a North Carolina town founded by former slaves has been disproportionately affected by environmental calamity.

by Danielle Purifoy via Scalawag on October 10, 2018

How Real Estate Segregated America

Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Dissent on October 2, 2018

The Origins of Prison Slavery

How Southern whites found replacements for their emancipated slaves in the prison system.

by Shane Bauer via Slate on October 2, 2018

How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings

Sherilynn A. Ifill on justice (and its absence) in the 1930s.

by Sherilynn A. Ifill via Literary Hub on September 26, 2018

Bringing a Dark Chapter to Light: Maryland Confronts Its Lynching Legacy

While lynching is most closely associated with former Confederate states, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country.

by Jonathan M. Pitts via Baltimore Sun on September 25, 2018

853 map of San Francisco by the U. S. Coast Survey

Demolishing the California Dream: How San Francisco Planned Its Own Housing Crisis

Today's housing crisis in San Francisco originates from zoning laws that segregated racial groups and income levels.

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on September 21, 2018

Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0

An updated prison syllabus in response to the national prison strike of 2018.

by Dan Berger, Garrett Felber, Elizabeth Hinton, Anyabwile Love, Kali Nicole Gross via Black Perspectives on September 8, 2018

The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century

The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on September 4, 2018

In the Hate of Dixie

Cynthia Tucker returns to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama – also the hometown of Harper Lee, and the site of 17 lynchings.

by Cynthia Tucker via The Bitter Southerner on August 28, 2018

Fresno’s Mason-Dixon Line

More than 50 years after redlining was outlawed, the legacy of discrimination can still be seen in California’s poorest large city.

by Reis Thebault via The Atlantic on August 20, 2018

Today’s Voter Suppression Tactics Have A 150 Year History

Rebels in the post-Civil War South perfected the art of excluding voters, but it was yankees in the North who developed the script.

by Gregory P. Downs via Talking Points Memo on July 26, 2018

As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

by Imani Perry via Harper’s on July 15, 2018

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