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Did Medgar Evers’ Killer Go Free Because of Jury Tampering?

Jerry Mitchell revisits a dark episode in the struggle for civil rights.
by Jerry Mitchell via Literary Hub on February 24, 2020
Illustration of slavecatchers surrounding a fugitive.

‘A World Turned Upside Down’: How Slavery Morphed into Today’s Carceral State

A new book uses the story of a former slave trader who profited after the Civil War by trafficking in convict labor to trace the historical roots of mass incarceration and racial profiling.
by Isidoro Rodriguez via The Crime Report on January 28, 2020

The Grey Gardens of the South

A very real story of southern degradation and decay that made national headlines in the fall of 1932.
by Karen L. Cox via Southern Cultures on January 23, 2020
Picture of DeFord Bailey holding a harmonica amplified by a gourd.

The Unsung Black Musician Who Changed Country Music

From the moment DeFord Bailey stepped onto a stage in Nashville, country music would never be the same. Decades after his death he finally got his due.
by Diana Bianco via Narratively on January 23, 2020

UVA and the History of Race: Eugenics, the Racial Integrity Act, Health Disparities

Reflections on the long career of race science at Mr. Jefferson's university.
by P. Preston Reynolds via UVA Today on January 9, 2020
Four African-Americans in front of a McDonalds restaurant

The Intertwined History of McDonald’s and Black America

In good ways and bad, the Golden Arches have always loomed large in the African American experience.
by Marcia Chatelain via Gen on January 6, 2020

The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts

A dispute between some scholars and the authors of NYT Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of U.S. society.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on December 23, 2019

A Personal Act of Reparation

The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.
by Kirk Savage via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 15, 2019
AHA executive officers, 1889

White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association

The historical interpretations crafted by the men of the Dunning School might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.
by Bradley D. Proctor via The Activist History Review on December 6, 2019
The cover of Cynthia A. Kierner's "Inventing Disaster," which depicts a shipwreck during a storm.

On Inventing Disaster

The culture of calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood.
by Cynthia Kierner, Anna Faison via UNC Press Blog on November 20, 2019

An Attempt to Resegregate Little Rock, of All Places

A battle over local control in a city that was the face of integration shows the extent of the new segregation problem in the U.S.
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on October 22, 2019

The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919

In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre may rank as the deadliest.
by Jerome B. Karabel via New York Review of Books on September 30, 2019
Hooded Klansmen featured in UVA's 1922 yearbook.

UVA and the History of Race: When the KKK flourished in Charlottesville

Charlottesville and the UVA were enthusiastic participants in the national resurgence of public and celebratory white supremacy.
by Ashley Schmidt, Kirt von Daacke via UVA Today on September 25, 2019

The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.
by Asher Price via The Atlantic on September 19, 2019

On Eric Garner, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Police Brutality as American Tradition

“¿DEFACEMENT?,” Inspired by the 1983 Police Murder of Michael Stewart.
by Johanna F. Almiron via Literary Hub on September 13, 2019
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Remembering The Red Summer 100 Years Later

Why it matters what language we use to describe what happened in 1919.
by David F. Krugler via HNN on August 4, 2019
Political cartoon of Columbia giving the Civil Rights bill to a Black man.

What Are These Civil Rights Laws?

The context and aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to kill the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
by Daniel Brook via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 27, 2019
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The Black Woman Who Launched The Modern Fight For Reparations

Her grass-roots efforts shaped the conversation and presented a path forward.
by Ashley D. Farmer via Made By History on June 24, 2019
Civil rights protest in St. Augustine, 1964.

Balancing the Ledger on Juneteenth

The reparations debate highlights what Juneteenth is about: freedom and demanding accountability for past and present wrongs.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 19, 2019

How Cars Transformed Policing

Most communities barely had a police force and citizens shared responsibility for enforcing laws. Then the car changed everything.
by Sarah A. Seo via Boston Review on June 3, 2019

How a Series of Jail Rebellions Rocked New York—and Woke a City

It has been nearly 50 years since New York’s jails erupted in protest, but the lessons of that era feel more relevant than ever.
by Heather Ann Thompson via The Nation on March 21, 2019
Graphic symbolizing a college stopping African Americans from entering the door.

What We Get Wrong About Affirmative Action

The lawsuit against Harvard forces us to talk about Asian Americans' role in the racial equity debate.
via Vox on December 10, 2018
Two inmates survey the aftermath of a prison uprising.

Prisons and Class Warfare

A look at the evolution of the prison system in California.
by Clement Petitjean, Ruth Wilson Gilmore via Historical Materialism on July 25, 2018

How a Pivotal Voting Rights Act Case Broke America

In the five years since the landmark decision, the Supreme Court has set the stage for a new era of white hegemony.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on July 10, 2018

The Last Words of Robert F. Kennedy

Until his last breath, RFK insisted that Americans confront their country’s shortcomings—and live up to its potential.
by Conor Friedersdorf via The Atlantic on June 5, 2018
Beachgoers speaking to a police officer.

Free the Beach

How seaside towns throughout the northeast limited the ability of ‘undesirables’ to access public beaches.
by Andrew W. Kahrl via Boston Review on May 21, 2018

The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad via The Nation on May 17, 2018
Reverend William J. Barber II leads a Moral Mondays rally in New York, 2015.
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Shaping a New Poor People’s Campaign

Rather than seeking a national solution, activists are taking to states across America to combat the deep roots of poverty.
by Gordon Mantler via Made By History on May 14, 2018
Demonstrators hold a painting of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump outside a Trump rally in Phoenix, Arizona, August 22, 2017.

American Democracy Has Faced Worse Threats Than Donald Trump

The golden age of American politics was illiberal, undemocratic, and bloody.
by Ezra Klein via Vox on May 10, 2018
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at podium giving "I Have A Dream" speech.

Martin Luther King Jr. Had a Much More Radical Message than a Dream of Racial Brotherhood

King Jr., remembered today for his non-violent resistance, was a radical reformer who called for fundamental redistribution of economic power and resources.
by Paul Harvey via The Conversation on March 30, 2018
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