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Black and white photo of The National Negro Business League with founder Booker T. Washington.

Identity Politics and Elite Capture

The Combahee River Collective and E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie agree that the wealthy and powerful will hijack activist energies for their own ends.

by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò via Boston Review on May 7, 2020

Illustration of a mob of white men burning down a building.

What a White-Supremacist Coup Looks Like

In Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, the victory of racial prejudice over democratic principle and the rule of law was unnervingly complete.

by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker on April 20, 2020

Tornado Groan: On Black (Blues) Ecologies

How early blues musicians processed the toll taken by tornadoes, floods, and other disasters that displaced them from their communities.

by J. T. Roane via Black Perspectives on March 16, 2020

Rube Foster Was the Big Man Behind the First Successful Negro Baseball League

100 years ago, it took a combination of salesman and dictator to launch a historic era for black teams.

by John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro via Andscape on February 13, 2020

Building America

The making of the black working class.

by William P. Jones via The Nation on October 7, 2019

Collage by Romare Bearden depicting African Americans in an urban setting

The Many Lives of Romare Bearden

An abstract expressionist and master of collage, an intellectual and outspoken activist, Bearden evolved as much as his times did.

by Nell Irvin Painter via The Nation on August 26, 2019

Elaine Race Massacre: Red Summer in Arkansas

An interactive exhibit that explores the events and consequences of the deadliest racial conflict in Arkansas history.

via Center For Arkansas History And Culture on July 29, 2019

A Black Medic Saved Hundreds on D-Day. Was He Deprived of a Medal of Honor?

Waverly Woodson treated at least 200 injured men on D-Day, despite being injured, himself.

by Jesse Greenspan via HISTORY on June 4, 2019

Illustration of Peurifoy and others attempting to find homosexuals within the federal government.

The Homophobic Hysteria of the Lavender Scare

Despite a thriving queer community in Washington, the 1950s State Department fired gay and lesbian workers en masse.

by Kazimir Lee, Dorian Alexander via The Nib on May 31, 2019

The Statue of Liberty Was Created to Celebrate Freed Slaves, Not Immigrants

Lady Liberty was inspired by the end of the Civil War and emancipation. The connection to immigration came later.

by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on May 23, 2019

Bringing a Dark Chapter to Light: Maryland Confronts Its Lynching Legacy

While lynching is most closely associated with former Confederate states, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country.

by Jonathan M. Pitts via Baltimore Sun on September 25, 2018

Terrorized African-Americans Found Their Champion in Civil War Hero Robert Smalls

The congressman and former slave claimed whites had killed 53,000 African-Americans. Few took him seriously—until now.

by Lisa Elmaleh Douglas via Smithsonian on August 22, 2018

Justice Among the Jell-O Recipes: The Feminist History of Food Journalism

The food pages of newspapers were probably some of the first feminist writing many women read.

by Suzanne Cope via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 9, 2018

illustration of orange groves with snow-capped mountains in the distance

The Dreams and Myths That Sold LA

How city leaders and real estate barons used sunshine and oranges to market Los Angeles.

by Hadley Meares via Curbed on May 24, 2018

The New Orleans Streetcar Protests of 1867

The lesser-known beginning of the desegregation of public transportation.

by John Bardes via We're History on April 28, 2018

Before Trump vs. the NFL, There was Jackie Robinson vs. JFK

Years after he integrated the MLB, Robinson publicly badgered John F. Kennedy on civil rights.

by Steven Levingston via Retropolis on September 24, 2017

Repressing Radicalism

The Espionage Act turns 100 today. It helped destroy the Socialist Party of America and quashes free speech to this day.

by Chip Gibbons via Jacobin on June 15, 2017

The Black Politics of Eugenics

For much of the twentieth century, African Americans embraced eugenics as a means of racial improvement.

by Ayah Nuriddin via Nursing Clio on June 1, 2017

When Malcolm X Met Fidel Castro

The history behind the photographs on Colin Kaepernick’s T-shirt.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on August 30, 2016

A Black Power Method

A Black Power method moves to destabilize or interrogate dominant white perspectives in mainstream media outlets, government records, and in the very definition of what constitutes a credible source.

by N. D. B. Connolly via Public Books on June 15, 2016

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