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The Bombs, the Church, the City, the State

What was Alabama back then? And what is Alabama right now?
by Charles P. Pierce via Esquire on December 11, 2017

The Long History of Black Officers Reforming Policing From Within

Some police are becoming more vocal advocates of change. But the project of ending racial bias in policing is a decades-old one.
by Taylor Hosking via The Atlantic on December 5, 2017

From Louis Armstrong to the N.F.L: Ungrateful as the New Uppity

The belief endures, from Armstrong’s time that visible, affluent African-American entertainers are obliged to adopt a pose of ceaseless gratitude.
by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on September 24, 2017
Court room 63 members of the all-black 24th Infantry are seated to be tried for mutiny and murder in Houston, 1917.

Vandals Damage Historical Marker Commemorating 1917 Uprising by Black Soldiers

100 years after a riot that left 19 people dead, descendants of the men held responsible are asking for posthumous pardons.
by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on September 8, 2017
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We’ve Spent a Century Fighting the War on Drugs. It Helped Create an Opioid Crisis.

The disastrous consequences of focusing on law enforcement and criminality.
by Matthew R. Pembleton via Made By History on August 31, 2017

Policing the Community

Today, many politicians claim a community approach means soft on crime. Birmingham's Johnnie Johnson Jr. disagrees.
by Lanier Isom via The Bitter Southerner on July 18, 2017

The Return of Monopoly

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?
by Matt Stoller via The New Republic on July 13, 2017

Six Nazi Spies Were Executed in D.C. White Supremacists Gave Them a Memorial

The memorial to the men sat in a field until 2010 when officials took a fork lift to it.
by John Woodrow Cox via Retropolis on June 23, 2017
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How The Espionage Act Became a Tool of Repression

This isn’t all history, of course. The Espionage Act is still on the books: Chelsea Manning was charged under it in 2011.
by Geoffrey R. Stone, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on June 23, 2017

Trump’s Defense of Taking Foreign Money Is Historically Illiterate

The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on June 11, 2017

I Tried to Help Black People Vote. Jeff Sessions Tried to Put Me in Jail

Jeff Sessions tried to jail an activist couple trying to ensure the black residents of Alabama the right to vote.
by Evelyn Turner via USA Today on February 7, 2017

The Disastrous, Forgotten 1996 Law That Created Today's Immigration Problem

Why the Clinton Administration is to blame for creating a permanent underclass of undocumented immigrants.
by Dara Lind via Vox on April 28, 2016

'He Brutalized for You'

How Joseph McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn became Donald Trump’s mentor.
by Michael Kruse via Politico Magazine on April 8, 2016

No Twang of Conscience Whatever

Patsy Sims reflects on her interview with the man who was instrumental in the death of three black men in Mississippi.
by Patsy Simms via Oxford American on November 6, 2014

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