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Home of a Black family living in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, January 1940.

Taxed for Being Black

The long arc of racist plunder through local tax codes is shocking—or, well, maybe it’s not, really.
by Victor Ray via Democracy Journal on June 13, 2024
Cover of "The Black Tax"

Tax History Matters: A Q&A with the Author of ‘The Black Tax’

The history of the property tax system and its structural defects that have led to widespread discrimination against Black Americans.
by Andrew W. Kahrl, Brakeyshia Samms via Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy on April 24, 2024
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 3 in Fort Washington, Md.
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The Surprising Roots of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Idea of National Divorce

Greene probably has visions of suburban Atlanta in the 1990s and 2000s, not the Civil War.
by Michan Connor via Made By History on March 14, 2023
Cleveland-Stevenson Tariff Reform Portrait Handkerchief

Tax Regimes

Historian Robin Einhorn reflects on Americans’ complicated relationship to taxes, from the colonial period through the Civil War to the tax revolts of the 1980s.
by Robin Einhorn, Noam Maggor via Phenomenal World on March 24, 2022

All Stick No Carrot: Racism, Property Tax Assessments, and Neoliberalism Post 1945 Chicago

Black homeowners have been an oft ignored actor in metropolitan history despite playing a central role.
via The Metropole on May 9, 2019

The Deeper Problem Behind the Sale of a Posh San Francisco Street

The news that a posh San Francisco street was sold for delinquent taxes exposes the deeper issue with America’s local revenue system.
by Brent Cebul via CityLab on August 18, 2017
Map of New York state from 1813

Suppressing the Black Vote in 1811

As more Black men gained the right to vote in New York, the state began to change its laws to reduce their power or disenfranchise them completely.
by Livia Gershon, Sarah L. H. Gronningsater via JSTOR Daily on February 23, 2024
Illustration of the Supreme Court and a school house mirroring each other. The Supreme Court sits atop a dollar bill, and the school house is upside down on the other side of the bill.

The Racist Idea that Changed American Education

How a landmark Supreme Court decision was shaped by the racist idea that poor children can’t learn.
by Matt Barnum via Vox on February 13, 2023
A 1948 color-coded map of Robeson County identifying racially segregated schools.

Financing Schools

On school funding and America’s kleptocratic public school divide.
by Esther Cyna via Phenomenal World on May 12, 2022
Inscription on Gullah-Geechee gravestone

Hilton Head Island— Haunted by Its Own History

Historical traces of racism and exclusion remain on the island. It’s just that new residents can’t—or won’t—read them.
by Alexa Hazel via Public Books on July 20, 2021
A composite photograph of South Carolina's majority-black legislature created and circulated by opponents of Reconstruction

The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.
by Vanessa Williamson via Dissent on January 11, 2021
American Revolution-era political cartoon showing elites signing trade document at behest of working-class.

Fight For Economic Equality Is As Old as America Itself

Fears of great wealth and the need for economic equality go back to the country’s origins.
by Daniel R. Mandell via The Conversation on August 4, 2020

Tearing Down Black America

Policing is not the only kind of state violence. City governments have demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.
by Brent Cebul via Boston Review on July 22, 2020

When Conservatives Called to Freeze Police Budgets

The loudest opponents to police funding were once fiscal conservatives.
by David Helps via The Metropole on July 22, 2020
Dilapidated boathouse

The Brothers Who Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave Their Family's Land

Their great-grandfather had bought the land a hundred years earlier, when he was a generation removed from slavery.
by Lizzie Presser via ProPublica on July 15, 2019

The Public Costs of Private Growth

Amazon, the Great Depression, and the fiscal history #HQ2 supporters miss.
by Daniel Wortel-London via The Metropole on January 28, 2019

The Value of Farmland: Rural Gentrification and the Movement to Stop Sprawl

Rapidly rising metropolitan land value can mean "striking gold" for some landowners while threatening the livelihood of others.
by Angela Hope Stiefbold via The Metropole on September 12, 2018

The School Massacre that Shocked Bath, Michigan

The chilling tale of a tragedy that was seemingly erased from the American consciousness.
by Bruce Kaplan via We're History on May 18, 2018

Housing Segregation In Everything

In 1968, the Fair Housing Act made it illegal to discriminate in housing. So why are neighborhoods still so segregated?
by Gene Demby, Maria Paz Gutierrez, Kara Frame via NPR on April 11, 2018

What Did the Three-Fifths Compromise Actually Do?

It was motivated in part by white Southerners' concerns about taxes, but ended up being all about maintaining their political power.
by Alex Sayf Cummings via Tropics of Meta on April 17, 2015
Blue-print style sketch of a suburban home, with sidewalk, driveway, and garage

How the Suburbs Became a Trap

Neighborhoods that once promised prosperity now offer crumbling infrastructure, aged housing stock, and social animus.
by Caitlin Zaloom via The New Republic on April 18, 2024
Jonesville Historic Gullah Neighborhood resident Josephine Wright stands between her home and an orange safety fence of a construction site on Hilton Head Island, S.C.

Developers Have Black Families Fighting to Maintain Property and History

All along the South Carolina coast, developers looking to profit on vacation getaways and new homes are targeting land owned by descendants of enslaved people.
by James Pollard via AP News on August 12, 2023
The 1.25-million-square-foot USC Village residential complex in Los Angeles.

The Rise of the UniverCity

Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.
by Davarian L. Baldwin, Meagan Day via Jacobin on September 2, 2021
Truman in car with dollar signs on eyes.

The Truman Show

How the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.
by Paul Campos via Intelligencer on July 24, 2021

The US Tax Code Should Not Allow Billionaires to Exist

The recent ProPublica exposé shows we need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them.
by Josh Mound via Jacobin on July 20, 2021
Repairs being made at the site of a water main break
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What Early American Infrastructure Politics Can Teach the Biden Administration

Infrastructure plans are always political. The key is being inclusive and focusing on the public good.
by Keith Pluymers, Harrison Diskin via Made By History on March 16, 2021
Image of street corner in the Bronx, New York

Boroughed Time

Confronting a long tradition of projecting fantasies onto the South Bronx.
by Sasha Frere-Jones via Bookforum on September 3, 2020

Taxing the Superrich

For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.
by Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman via Boston Review on February 3, 2020

The Supreme Court Decision That Kept Suburban Schools Segregated

A 1974 Supreme Court decision found that school segregation was allowable if it wasn’t being done on purpose.
by Jon Hale via The Conversation on July 24, 2019

Even the Dead Could Not Stay

An illustrated history of urban renewal in Roanoke, Virginia.
by Martha Park via CityLab on January 19, 2018
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