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Woman shielding her face with a newspaper reporting "Cops Fired 41 Shots."

The Social Construction of Race

Race is a social fiction imposed by the powerful on those they wish to control.

by Brian Jones via Jacobin on June 25, 2015

Bryan Stevenson on Charleston and Our Real Problem with Race

"I don't believe slavery ended in 1865, I believe it just evolved."

by Corey G. Johnson, Bryan Stevenson via The Marshall Project on June 24, 2015

Historians and the Carceral State

Examining histories of mass incarceration and views on teaching histories of the carceral state.

via Process: A Blog for American History on June 18, 2015

Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed

Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.

by Ari Berman via The Nation on February 25, 2015

The New Racism

A glimpse inside the Alabama State House suggests that the civil rights movement may have reached its end.

by Jason Zengerle via The New Republic on August 10, 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

LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act

Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.

by Michael O'Donnell via The Atlantic on March 19, 2014

Modern Segregation

Policies of de jure racial segregation and a history of state-sponsored violence continue to have an impact on African Americans.

by Richard Rothstein via Economic Policy Institute on March 6, 2014

Soldiers around tanks on the street.

Want to Understand the 1992 LA Riots? Start with the 1984 LA Olympics

The causes were many, but police brutality and economic insecurity were supercharged in Los Angeles after the 1984 Olympics.

by Dave Zirin via The Nation on April 30, 2012

That World Is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town

The story of Vinegar Hill, a historically African American neighborhood in Charlottesville, Virginia.

via Field Studio on May 9, 2011

Restarting the Civil Rights Movement

Is there still a civil rights movement?

by E. R. Shipp via The Root on December 19, 2010

Ticket for Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral service at Morehouse College, April 9, 1968.

The Shot That Echoes Still

James Baldwin's dispatch from MLK's funeral foreshadowed an America we may never escape.

by James Baldwin, Michael Eric Dyson via Esquire on April 4, 1972

Martin Luther King, Jr. being arrested in Montgomery, 1958.

Martin Luther King Was a Law Breaker

On the second anniversary of MLK's assassination, political prisoner Martin Sostre wrote a tribute emphasizing his radical disobedience.

by Austin McCoy, Martin Sostre via Martin Sostre Institute on April 1, 1970

Man interviewing a group of people on the street.

James Baldwin Comments on the Kerner Commission

The Kerner Commission was credited with exposing systemic racism that inspired resistance in Black communities. James Baldwin argued that it stated the obvious.

by Public Broadcast Laboratory via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on March 3, 1968

Black and white photograph of James Baldwin

A Report from Occupied Territory

These things happen, in all our Harlems, every single day. If we ignore this fact, and our common responsibility to change this fact, we are sealing our doom.

by James Baldwin via The Nation on July 11, 1966

Kwame Ture at at a 1966 Mississippi Press Conference. Public Domain.

Stokely Carmichael Interview

A field secretary of SNCC discusses the importance of maintaining political power inside communities at the county level.

via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on April 21, 1966

Opponents of school desegregation in Montgomery, Alabama.

How Much Had Schools Really Been Desegregated by 1964?

Ten years after 'Brown v. Board of Education', Martin Luther King Jr. condemned how little had changed in the nation's classrooms.

by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Atlantic on May 7, 1964

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

Clarence Thomas and small sections of the Supreme Court's opinion in Students for Fair Admissions versus Harvard.

Clarence Thomas Accidentally Laid the Groundwork for Reviving Affirmative Action

In trying to shut the door on race-conscious affirmative action, he may have quietly left another affirmative action door wide open.

by Maureen Edobor, Brandon Hogan via Slate on October 7, 2025

Young Donald Trump by the staircase in his fancy home.

The Real Estate Roots of Trumpism and the Coming Clash With Democratic Socialism

Trump’s brand of authoritarianism emerges out of New York City’s real estate industry. As mayor, Zohran Mamdani vows to curb that sector’s outsized power.

by John Whitlow via The Nation on September 18, 2025

An apartment building on fire.

Did Racial Capitalism Set the Bronx on Fire?

To some, the fires lit in New York in the late seventies signaled rampant crime; to others, rebellion. But maybe they were signs of something else entirely.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on August 18, 2025

A drawing of the Division Street uprising, depicting a barricade and Puerto Rican flags.

How Chicago's Division Street Rebellion Brought Latinos Together

In 1966, police shot a young Puerto Rican man. What followed created a blueprint for a new kind of solidarity.

by Felipe Hinojosa via Zócalo Public Square on August 13, 2025

Buildings drawing and black and white negative, on the cover of "Yale and Slavery."

What Universities Owe

David Blight's report "Yale and Slavery" considers institutional accountability in the context of a world marked by systemic violence and inequality.

by Vincent Brown via London Review of Books on July 24, 2025

Fiorello La Guardia

Lessons from La Guardia

Can Zohran Mamdani reshape New York—and national—politics like Mayor Fiorello La Guardia once did?

by Kim Phillips-Fein via Jewish Currents on July 18, 2025

Grover Cleveland

The Gilded Age Roots of American Austerity

Both Trump and Cleveland employed the rhetoric of worthiness and efficiency, anti-fraud and anti-corruption, as justifications for their austerity measures.

by Dale Kretz via Jacobin on July 17, 2025

Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat members of Congress wearing kente cloth and kneeing in the capitol building.

Blinded by Righteous Outrage

From the 1994 Crime Act to Trump 2.0.

by Touré F. Reed via Nonsite on June 14, 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

Student Carl Griffin shows Senators Walter Mondale and Birch Bayh the bullet holes left by the police shooting at Jackson State.

DOJ Shakeup May Put Civil Rights Probe of 1970 Jackson State, Mississippi, Killings At Risk

The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Act made way for investigations of racially motivated killings. The federal agency enforcing it is in disarray.

by Daja E. Henry via The Marshall Project on May 14, 2025

A National Police Week ceremony.

The Jim Crow Origins of National Police Week

Police brutality and corruption are painful realities. So are officers who die performing their duty. But the memorial in Washington fails to distinguish them.

by Elizabeth Robeson via The Nation on May 9, 2025

Three Black men having a conversation.

Recovering the Forgotten Past of Black Legal Lives

Dylan C. Penningroth challenges nearly every aspect of our traditional understanding of civil rights history.

by Ajay K. Mehrotra via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 3, 2025

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