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A sign that reads "U.S. Department of Energy, Nevada Test Site, Yucca Mountain Project."

The Fallout

The fight over nuclear waste on Yucca Mountain.
by Andrew Alam-Nist via The Politic on March 30, 2023
Waco City Hall and a historical marker for the lynching.

Inside the Decades-long Effort to Commemorate a Notorious Waco Lynching

After years of opposition and delay, Waco finally has posted a historical marker about the 1916 murder of Jesse Washington.
by Will Bostwick via Texas Monthly on February 23, 2023
A photograph of Marvel Cooke overlayed over The Crisis' newspaper office.

This Radical Reporter Dedicated Her Life to Fighting the System

"I idolized women like Marvel Cooke," Angela Davis tells Teen Vogue.
by Olivia Lapeyrolerie via Teen Vogue on February 8, 2023
Agnes Wilkinson, Ahmeenah Young, and Aishah Shahidah Simmons.

Black Power Meets Police Power

The experiences of Michael and Zoharah Simmons show that the fight against the carceral state is embedded in a larger project of building a just world.
by Dan Berger via Inquest on January 24, 2023
Newspaper headline reading: "Red Cross Says Refusal of Negro Blood is U.S. Order."

Good Blood, Bad Policy: The Red Cross and Jim Crow

A 1940s Red Cross rule, which racially segregated blood, propped up notions of racial difference and Black inferiority.
by Melba Newsome via UnDark on January 18, 2023
White students, including Jerry Jones, at Arkansas' North Little Rock High blocked the doors of the school Sept. 9, 1957, denying access to six Black students.

Jerry Jones Helped Transform the NFL, Except When It Comes To Race

Decades after the segregation battles of his youth, Jerry Jones has modernized the NFL’s revenue model but hasn’t hired a Black head coach.
by David Maraniss, Sally Jenkins via Washington Post on November 23, 2022
The Police Beat Algorithm, along with its computational key. Illustrated by Kelly Chudler.

The 1960s Experiment That Created Today’s Biased Police Surveillance

The Police Beat Algorithm’s outputs were not so much predictive of future crime as they were self-fulfilling prophesies.
by Charlton D. McIlwain via Slate on November 11, 2022
Black and white photograph of William Still, sitting, pasted against a blue tinted backdrop of a U.S. state map

The Forgotten Father of the Underground Railroad

The author of a book about William Still unearths new details about the leading Black abolitionist—and reflects on his lost legacy.
by Andrew K. Diemer via Smithsonian on November 9, 2022
Photo collage of black students protesting with locked arms

The Moral Force of the Black University

A 1968 student uprising at the Tuskegee Institute married practical demands with political vision.
by Brian Jones via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 3, 2022
Jackie Robinson wearing his baseball uniform.

Revisiting the Legacy of Jackie Robinson

The Christian, the athlete, and the activist.
by Paul Putz via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on November 1, 2022
Photograph of an African American family buying ice cream at a segregated ice cream shop

Gordon Parks' View of America Across Three Decades

Two new books and one expanded edition of Gordon Parks' photographs look at the work of the photographer from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
by Robert E. Gerhardt via Blind on October 28, 2022
Eric Foner sits in an arm chair on stage during an interview, holding a microphone.

“Originalism Is Intellectually Indefensible”

On the persistent myth of the colorblind Constitution that the Supreme Court's conservatives have embraced.
by Eric Foner, Cristian Farias via Balls And Strikes on October 28, 2022
Anita Bryant with pie on face

Proposition 6 (The Briggs Initiative): Annotated

Proposition 6, better known as the Briggs Initiative, was the first attempt to restrict the rights of lesbian and gay Americans by popular referendum.
by Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on October 28, 2022
Supreme Court and college admissions illustration.

The Anti-Antiracist Court

How the Supreme Court has weaponized the Fourteenth Amendment and Brown v. Board of Education against antiracism.
by Jonathan Feingold via The Forum on October 24, 2022
Photograph of Felix Frankfurter opening a briefcase.

A Prisoner of His Own Restraint

Felix Frankfurter was renowned as a liberal lawyer and advocate. Why did he turn out to be such a conservative Supreme Court justice?
by Jed S. Rakoff via New York Review of Books on October 13, 2022
"Home of Fannie Lou Hamer" sign

The Local Politics of Fannie Lou Hamer

By age 44, most people are figuring out how to live and die peacefully. That was certainly not the case with sharecropper and hero Fannie Lou Hamer.
by Stefan M. Bradley via Black Perspectives on October 6, 2022
African American mineworkers holding the American flag and a sign reading Join Our Union

Black and White Workers and Communists Built a “Civil Rights Unionism” Under Jim Crow

Today’s activists should look to North Carolina's black and white tobacco workers, who organized a union and went on strike in the teeth of the Jim Crow South.
by Nelson Lichtenstein via Jacobin on October 3, 2022
Black and white photo of the “Star-Spangled Banner” flown during the War of 1812, 1914.

A Fiery Gospel

A conversation about changing the American story.
by Lewis H. Lapham, Kermit Roosevelt III via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 19, 2022
Cora Tyson, 99, stands by the historic marker in front of her home in St. Augustine, Fla., on July 15.

The Hatred These Black Women Can’t Forget as They Near 100 Years Old

Three veterans of the civil rights movement fought segregation in St. Augustine, Fla., enduring violence and racism in America’s oldest city.
by Martin Dobrow via Washington Post on August 28, 2022
4 photo collage illustrating the partnership between the White League and the Ku Klux Klan in engaging in vigilante terrorism and racial violence

Colfax, Cruikshank, and the Latter-Day War on Reconstruction

Unearthing the deep roots of racialized voter suppression—and explaining how they shape ballot access today.
by David Daley via The Forum on August 3, 2022
Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

Democratic Spirit: Ulysses S. Grant at 200

The foremost challenge of Grant’s day has not gone away. His response to it merits our attention.
by Andrew F. Lang via Current (religion and democracy) on July 19, 2022
Photo of Vincent Chin superimposed on "Stop Anti-Asian Attacks" Protests.

Remembering Vincent Chin — And The Deep Roots of Anti-Asian Violence

40 years after Vincent Chin’s murder, the struggle against anti-Asian hate continues.
by Li Zhou via Vox on June 19, 2022
Angela Davis meeting with Communist Party leader Valentina Tereshkova

Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

A Red-Black alliance defended political prisoners and drew attention to death and prison sentences disproportionately handed out to people of color.
by Tony Pecinovsky via Black Perspectives on June 15, 2022
Curt Flood of the Saint Louis Cardinals, May 1966. Flood challenged Major League Baseball’s “reserve clause” barring players from changing teams.

A People’s History of Baseball

Communists fighting the color line. Baseball players resisting owners. Baseball's untold history of struggles against racial injustice and labor exploitation.
by Peter Dreier, Michael Arria via Jacobin on May 25, 2022
Picture of former President Bill Clinton looking downtrodden.

The Disastrous Legacy of the New Democrats

Clintonites taught their party how to talk about helping people without actually doing it.
by Alex Pareene via The New Republic on May 16, 2022
Jackie Robinson addresses civil rights supporters protesting outside the 1964 GOP National Convention.

Jackie Robinson Was a Radical – Don't Listen to the Sanitized Version of History

Before Colin Kaepernick, Jackie Robinson wrote, ‘I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a Black man in a white world.’
by Peter Dreier via The Conversation on April 14, 2022
Women in 1978 Equal Rights Amendment March hold a banner that reads "National ERA March for Ratification and Extension"

The 1978 Equal Rights Amendment March

On a broiling summer afternoon in 1978, the Women's Movement held what was then known as the largest parade for feminism in history.
by Henry Kokkeler via Boundary Stones on April 13, 2022
Gov. Ron DeSantis shows an image from the children's book "Call Me Max" by transgender author Kyle Lukoff before signing the Parental Rights in Education bill in Shady Hills, Fla. on March 28.

How Anita Bryant Helped Spawn Florida's LGBTQ Culture War

Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, is part of a long legacy of anti-gay rhetoric and legislation in the state.
by Jillian Eugenios via NBC News on April 13, 2022
Paul Ryan against a background of graph paper and a dotted line.

The Struggle for the Soul of the GOP

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?
by Timothy Shenk via The New Republic on April 12, 2022
The site in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered in 1964.

Burying a Burning

The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America.
by Ko Bragg via The Atlantic on April 7, 2022
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