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Virginia residents outside of an early voting location.
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The Troubling Roots of Off-Year Gubernatorial Elections

Off-year elections were meant to insulate states from federal trends. That still matters.
by Michael Trotti via Made By History on October 29, 2025
A suburban road in California.

What Auto Insurance Tells Us about Race, Risk, and Responsibility

Who gets to move freely in California’s auto insurance system?
by Genevieve Carpio via The Metropole on October 7, 2025
Cover of "Born In Flames" book.

Incendiary Schemes

A new book reveals systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes perpetrated by landlords and insurance companies in the Bronx.
by Charlotte E. Rosen via Protean on September 7, 2025
National Guard troops enforce desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock, AK, 1957.
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The History of School Desegregation Reveals the Job Isn't Done

One of the most famous episodes of school desegregation was actually just the starting point for a half-century struggle.
by Heather McNamee via Made By History on September 4, 2025
Young mother, St. Ann's Ave at E. 140th St., Bronx, 1977
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Life in the Firestorm

The 21st century American city was forged in the embers of the 1970s arson wave.
by Bench Ansfield via HNN on August 19, 2025
Protesters gather outside the White House, holding picket signs advocating for home rule for Washington DC.

How the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act Enabled the Nation’s Capital to Govern Itself—With Oversight

Far from being a new debate, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been around as long as the District of Columbia itself.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian Magazine on August 14, 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
The book "A Forgotten Migration," and author Crystal R. Sanders

A Forgotten Migration: An Interview with Crystal R. Sanders

A new book examines the long history of racial inequality in higher education through the post-baccalaureate experiences of Jim Crow era African Americans.
by Ashley Everson, Crystal R. Sanders via Black Perspectives on July 28, 2025
A group of workers in hard hats walk through the shallow water of one of the Panama Canal's locks.

‘The Canal Is Ours’

Trump’s threats to take control of the Panama Canal have precipitated a struggle over the country’s sovereignty.
by Miriam Pensack via New York Review of Books on June 28, 2025
Malcolm X

What Made Malcolm X Dangerous

He challenged the violence of US power, abroad and at home. His radical internationalism, from Congo to Palestine, speaks to our moment.
by Donté L. Stallworth via Jacobin on May 21, 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
Still frames from the film Sinners spliced with photos depicting a whites-only sign and a group of African American families

The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in 'Sinners'

The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on May 2, 2025
A collage of pages from the National Park service website, including one about Appomattox Court House and one about the Underground Railroad, showing language stricken out since Donald Trump's innauguration in 2025.

Amid Anti-DEI Push, National Park Service Rewrites History of Underground Railroad

Since Trump took office, the park service — charged with preserving American history — has changed how it describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow.
by Jon Swaine, Jeremy B. Merrill via Washington Post on April 6, 2025
Children at the Oakland Community School, 1973.

What Happens When the U.S. Declares War on Your Parents?

The Black Panthers shook America before the party was gutted by the government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride.
by Ed Pilkington via The Guardian on March 25, 2025
An aerial view of houses in Jersey City, United States on July 13, 2024.

Is The ‘Predatory’ Property Tax An Instrument Of Oppression?

According to Andrew Kahrl, the property tax has been used to disposs black homeowners since the 19th century.
by Joseph J. Thorndike via Forbes on March 24, 2025
A crowd of Black children walking into school.

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education

On the ongoing battle to desegregate schools across America throughout the 1960s.
by Noliwe Rooks via Literary Hub on March 19, 2025
Farmer working a mule-drawn plow.

Racism Isn’t the Only Cause of the Racial Wealth Gap

Widening the lens to capitalism itself could yield insights on how to close the gap.
by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on March 6, 2025
Eve Ewing, and the cover of her book "Original Sins."

How Do We Combat the Racist History of Public Education?

On the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy.
by Naomi Elias, Eve L. Ewing via The Nation on March 4, 2025
The Ku Klux Klan parading near the Capitol Building in 1925, holding American flags.

What Felt Impossible Became Possible

George Dale's crusade against the Ku Klux Klan.
by Dan Sinker via Dan Sinker Blog on February 23, 2025
W.E.B. DuBois, seated in garden reading book, while Shirley Graham DuBois waters plants.

How Black Marxists Have Understood Racial Oppression

Black Marxist thought emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and the destructiveness of that oppression for all workers.
by Jeff Goodwin, Jonah Birch via Jacobin on February 17, 2025
A collage of rats, trash, rat exterminators, and a rat mascot.

Rats!

Baltimore's long history with its most polarizing pest.
by Lydia Woolever via Baltimore Magazine on January 2, 2025
Belle da Costa Greene.

The Hidden Story of J. P. Morgan’s Librarian

Belle da Costa Greene, a brilliant archivist, buried her own history.
by Hilton Als via The New Yorker on December 16, 2024
Tents in Resurrection City in Washington D.C., a protest encampment on the National Mall.

The Poverty of Homeownership

On both sides of the color line, to own one’s home remains synonymous with freedom—even as real estate has proven itself to be relentlessly unequal.
by David Helps via Public Books on December 4, 2024
Jade Stevens rests near Lake Putt on land in California’s Tahoe National Forest.

Can Land Repair the Nation’s Racist Past?

California’s approach to Black reparations shifts toward land access, ownership and stewardship.
by Alexis Hunley via High Country News on December 1, 2024
Black farmer harvesting kale.

Black Earth

In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved—and is reclaiming his family’s story and the soil beneath his feet.
by Christina Cooke via The Bitter Southerner on November 25, 2024
William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison.

What the Novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison Reveal About the Soul of America

The postwar moment of a distinctive new American novel—Nabokov’s "Lolita"— is also the moment in which William Faulkner finally gained recognition.
by Edwin Frank via Literary Hub on November 19, 2024
Strom Thurmond speaking to the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of Ed Carnes' confirmation to the bench.

The Fight for Justice Starts with Blocking Judges Who Are “Tough on Crime”

The story of how Ed Carnes became a judge offers crucial lessons for those who hope to unwind the policies of mass incarceration.
by Robert L. Tsai via Public Books on November 13, 2024
A standardized test and a pencil, with answers bubbled in.

The Rotting of the College Board

Testing is necessary. The SAT’s creator is not.
by Naomi Schaefer Riley via Commentary on November 13, 2024
Protestors standing against the death penalty.

An Exercise in Political Imagination: Debating William F. Buckley

Stephen Bright and Bryan Stevenson defended the abolition of capital punishment at a moment when political support for that movement reached its nadir.
by Robert L. Tsai via Liberal Currents on October 31, 2024
Fred Grey photographed in front of a book shelf of law books.
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The History of Segregation Scholarships

A narrative not of brain drain but of Black aspiration.
by Crystal R. Sanders via HNN on October 15, 2024
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