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Policemen with nightsticks dragging Black man down the street.

What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.
by Daniel Geary via Boston Review on May 19, 2016

The Racist Roots of Virginia's Felon Disenfranchisement

A century ago, the commonwealth's leaders weren't circumspect about their motives.
by Matt Ford via The Atlantic on April 27, 2016
Members of the 1976 United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Warren Burger, center.

It’s Been 40 Years Since the Supreme Court Tried to Fix the Death Penalty— Here’s How It Failed

A close look at the grand compromise of 1976.
by Evan Mandery via The Marshall Project on March 30, 2016

Land and The Roots of African-American Poverty

Land redistribution could have served as the primary means of reparations for former slaves. Instead, it did exactly the opposite.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Aeon on March 11, 2016
Cover of "Why Busing Failed," depicting anti-busing protestors surrounding a school bus.

Why Busing Failed

Getting the history of “busing” right enables us to see more clearly how school segregation and educational inequality continued in the decades after Brown.
by Matt Delmont via Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation on March 6, 2016

Race and the American Creed

Recovering black radicalism.
by Aziz Rana via n+1 on December 7, 2015
Nancy Reagan speaking at a podium with a "Just say no" logo.

The Suburban Imperatives of America's War on Drugs

Since the 1950s, disparities along class and racial lines have defined the nation's drug policy.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Process: A Blog for American History on November 17, 2015
Clara Newton at her home outside Baltimore, holding a picture of her son Odell, who has been in prison for 41 years for a crime he committed when he was 16. State officials have recommended Odell for release three times since 1992, but he has not been freed. August 4, 2015.

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on September 15, 2015
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.
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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.
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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
Albert Einstein collage photo with scientific diagrams.

Albert Einstein’s Brilliant Politics

The physicist fought for the promise of a diverse, meritocratic America. We need his optimism today.
by Joshua Bennett via The Atlantic on January 2, 2026
A political cartoon of Stephen Miller separating families with tentacle-like arms.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State

Descended from Jewish immigrants, Stephen Miller's project is to close the country to people like his ancestors.
by Greg Sargent via The New Republic on December 15, 2025
Lee Atwater

Southern Strategies

You're misreading Lee Atwater’s infamous “southern strategy” quote as a confession.
by Kevin M. Kruse via Campaign Trails on December 7, 2025
A billboard advertising nice homes while hiding the dilapidated state of the homes behind it.

American Suburbs Have a Financial Secret

Municipal bonds have become an unavoidable part of local governance—and their costs divide rich towns from poor ones.
by Michael Waters via The Atlantic on November 6, 2025
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