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The Struggle Over the Meaning of the 14th Amendment Continues

The fight over the 150-year old language in the Constitution is a battle for the very heart of the American republic.
by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on July 10, 2018
Manuscript of the Fourteenth Amendment.

We Should Embrace the Ambiguity of the 14th Amendment

A hundred and fifty years after its ratification, some of its promises remain unfulfilled—but one day it may still be interpreted anew.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on July 9, 2018

Pretending Not to Discriminate in the Name of National Security

America has always discriminated in the name of national security. It’s just gotten better at pretending it’s not.
by Paul A. Kramer via Slate on June 29, 2018

Forgotten Feminisms: Johnnie Tillmon's Battle Against 'The Man'

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.
by Judith Shulevitz via New York Review of Books on June 26, 2018
Trump greeting supporters.

White Tribe Rising

What accounts for white tribalism?
by James McWilliams via The Hedgehog Review on June 21, 2018

The End of Civil Rights

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 18, 2018
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The Train at Wood's Crossing

Piecing together the story of an 1898 lynching in a community that chose to forget most of the details.
by Brendan Wolfe via brendanwolfe.com on June 17, 2018

How Birth Certificates Are Being Weaponized Against Trans People

A century ago, these documents were used to reinforce segregation. Today, they’re being used to impose binary identities on transgender people.
by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on June 8, 2018
Elizabeth Eckford is harassed by classmates and parents as she tries to enter Little Rock High School.

The Defiant Ones

As young girls, they fought the fierce battle to integrate America’s schools half a century ago.
by Amy Crawford via Smithsonian on June 1, 2018
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C. in 1957.

The Radical Supreme Court Decision That America Forgot

In Green v. New Kent County, the Court saw school desegregation as a reparative process.
by Will Stancil via The Atlantic on May 29, 2018

The Court’s Supreme Injustice

How John Marshall, Joseph Story, and Roger Taney strengthened the institution of slavery and embedded in the law a systemic hostility to fundamental freedom and basic justice.
by Allen Mendenhall via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 24, 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The Afro-Pessimist Temptation

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.
by Darryl Pinckney via New York Review of Books on May 23, 2018

What Is Loitering, Really?

America’s laws against lingering have roots in Medieval England. The goal has always been to keep anyone “out of place” away.
by Ariel Aberg-Riger via CityLab on May 21, 2018
Railworkers watch dignitaries on an approaching train.
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How Slave Labor Built the State of Florida—Decades After the Civil War

Behind the whitewashed history of the Sunshine State.
by Bryan Bowman, Kathy Roberts Forde via Made By History on May 17, 2018
A photograph of the Louisiana State Insane Asylum in 1870.

Is White Supremacy a System of Corruption?

Before they even learn the details, adherents already know the outcome of real world events. The white guy will be the good guy, no matter what.
by William Horne via The Activist History Review on May 4, 2018
Inside the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, AL.
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How the New Monument to Lynching Unravels a Historical Lie

Lies about history long protected lynching.
by Nina Silber via Made By History on May 2, 2018

Home Values Remain Low in Vast Majority of Formerly Redlined Neighborhoods

The long legacy of structural racism in the New Deal-era housing market.
by Sarah Mikhitarian via Zillow Research on April 25, 2018

Redlining and Gentrification

Exploring the deep connections between redlining, gentrification, and exclusion in San Francisco.
via Urban Displacement Project on April 25, 2018

A New Kind Of City Tour Shows The History Of Racist Housing Policy

Redlining tours explain how policies designed to keep minorities out of certain areas shaped the urban landscapes we see today.
by Adele Peters via Fast Company on April 23, 2018

Greater Homeownership isn’t the Answer to Ending Wealth Inequality

Black Americans have just one-tenth of the wealth of white Americans, and the difference in home values is a big part of the problem.
by Eshe Nelson via Quartz on April 19, 2018

Real Museums of Memphis

How the National Civil Rights Museum has obscured the ongoing dispossession of African-Americans taking place in its shadow.
by Zandria Felice Robinson via Scalawag on April 12, 2018

Housing Segregation In Everything

In 1968, the Fair Housing Act made it illegal to discriminate in housing. So why are neighborhoods still so segregated?
by Gene Demby, Maria Paz Gutierrez, Kara Frame via NPR on April 11, 2018

How the Fair Housing Act Failed Black Homeowners

In many cities, maps of mortgage approvals and home values in black neighborhoods look as they did before the law was passed.
by Kriston Capps, Kate Rabinowitz via CityLab on April 11, 2018

The Missed Opportunity of the Kerner Report

A new history recovers the forgotten legacy and radical implications of the Kerner Commission.
by William P. Jones via The Nation on April 5, 2018
Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush at the funeral of US Senator Zell Miller
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The Democratic Program That Killed Liberalism

How Democrats like Zell Miller and Bill Clinton exacerbated inequality in education
by Jonathan D. Cohen via Made By History on March 28, 2018
Lady Justice statue.

The Untold Story of Ordinary Black Southerners’ Litigation During the Jim Crow Era

Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, about a thousand black southerners sued whites who had wronged them.
by Melissa Milewski via OUPblog on March 27, 2018

How The Sacrifices of Black Civil War Troops Advanced Medicine

A new museum exhibit in Philadelphia showcases the first public health record of African Americans.
by Ilene Raymond Rush via Philly.com on March 21, 2018

Still a Long Time Coming

Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on March 21, 2018

Whitey on the Moon

Gil Scott-Heron's searing 1970 commentary on the nation's economic priorities.
by Joseph M. Thompson via Enviro-History on March 16, 2018

Between Obama and Coates

Because both thinkers neglect political economy, they end up promoting a politics that is responsible for the nation's growing inequality.
by Touré F. Reed via Catalyst on March 12, 2018
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